On Mon, Aug 05, 2002 at 12:35:47PM -0600, Maurice Hilarius wrote: > The Fujitsu disks have a track record of good reliability. > The IDE disk you mention were discontinued a year ago. > In our experiences Fujitsu disks have as low a failure rate as can be found. > Drives we have used with higher failure rates (SCSI) came from IBM and > Seagate. > The best failure rate we have seen is from Hitachi. > In the case of Fujitsu, Hitachi, and Seagate the rates are very close. > Quantum/Maxtor SCSI are a bit worse. > IBM are substantially worse. > This is based on our DOA and in service SCSI disk failures over the past > year. Thanks for sharing your experience with these brands. It confirms that Fujitsu remains a good choice. I am in the process of returning the failed disk and will ask for a full audit of the failure, which I will summarize to this list when I get it. Cheers, -- 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
