From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2002 13:00:27 -0500 From: William Josephson To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] fs hardware configuration Message-ID: <20021130180027.GA68291@mero.morphisms.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Topicbox-Message-UUID: 2af1fbfa-eacb-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 On Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 08:42:11AM -0500, Skip Tavakkolian wrote: > > If those IDE drivers are IBM 120GXPs, have you checked > > the warranty doesn't preclude 24 7 working? > > They are WD. I had read disturbing stats about Fujitsu drives > failure rates but not IBM's. The Fujitsu story is here: All the manufacturers have had their problems with particular models. The 120GXPs (I think) from IBM definitely had major problems and Fujitsu has had trouble, too. Western Digital seems to be known in the industry for very poor QA; it has been a long time since I've used WD drives, but I did have quite a bit of trouble when I last used them. I'm not sure what to conclude other than "be paranoid if you care about what is on the disk" :-/