I would agree about Fujitsu, Hitachi, & Seagate SCSI disks being very reliable. Do note that the server-class drives should have consistent mode page settings and firmware levels from the vendor. Fixes to most early-life disk problems boil down to changes to either the firmware or the mode page settings. Even the IBM problems can be helped significantly by upgrading firmware and careful mode page settings. There are DOS utilities to check/update these, and I have some tools for Linux to help check or update disk firmware and mode pages, if you are interested. http://cvs.carrierlinux.org/viewcvs/viewcvs.cgi/components/scsirastools/src/ Andy Cress 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. - 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
