On Mon, Aug 05, 2002 at 10:15:54PM +1000, Neil Brown wrote: > On Monday August 5, vindex@apartia.org wrote: > > > > FWIW the disk that is malfunctioning is a 3-month-old Fujitsu 15k 36G > > (MAM3367MP) which is an expensive server-grade disk. The reason I > > selected Fujitsu was because of reported quality problems on IBM disks > > and Fujitsu's good reputation on SCSI (their IDE line is bad however). > > I am looking for informed opinions on these disks and recommendations > > for future purchases. What are the most reliable SCSI disks out there? > > > > It must be: fast, affordable, reliable, (select any two ;-) > > Somehow, I wish you hadn't said that..... Sorry, but I thoroughly checked the disk after taking it off the server and a lot of sectors are damaged, reiserfsck quits with a "can't read", and the spindle makes bad noises. > I just recently commissioned a fileserver with 14 Fujitsu MAM3367MC drives. > I wander what the difference between P and C is... It must be for 68 or 80 pin (ours is a 68). > Previously we have used Seagates which have seemed quite reliable. > The only real problems that we have had is with the IBM IDE DeathStars > (oops, I meant DeskStars. Naughty keyboard). Had a sorry experience with these as well, a 75 G. -- ldm@apartia.org - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
