Hi, > Take note of Jamin's comments. Whatever anecdotes you read here > should not be considered data.
Seconded. No data ahead here. > I've also had problems with IBM drives, but I believe it was a > particular model that was bad (it was a 60GB deskstar). A particular > model, I said, not a particular unit. I've heard many horror stories > about the 60GB deskstars, while also hearing that IBM's other lines > (including deskstars in other capacities) were great. Again, this is > all hearsay. I had two IBM Deskstar 7200RPM 40Gb drives crash on me. They were both from 2001 and both "Made in Hungary". Both had audible mechanical defects. I believe these particular drives are now refered to as "Deathstar", but I might mix some stuff up here. I'm royally pissed at these two drives now. ;-) My workstation runs on a 2001 40Gb IBM from the Phillipines, I believe (can't exactly rip it out just right now ;-), and is quiet, stable and *fast*. Two 2002 IBM 40Gb drives are in a colocated server somewhere running on a hardware RAID controller: quiet, fast and cool aswell. One disk 'died' after a power outage (it's happily running FreeBSD now on a testing machine upstairs, so how 'dead' it is remains to be seen). I find Maxtor drives to be very quiet and reliable, but I find the single platter versions to run very hot. Anyone care to enlighten me (us?) on how the latest IBM/Hitachi drives run as far as temperature is concerned? On a sidenote: what would you consider a decent burn-in time? Any thoughts or suggestions on what tools to use to stress test new drives? (Googling as we speak, btw) Buhbye... Nico -- "The computer can't tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical design, but what's missing is the eyebrows." --Frank Zappa -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
