Hard Disk Suggestion

[A. Khattri]

On Tue, 28 Dec 2004, Shawn Tayler wrote:

> I recently recommended on a collegues suggestion, the purchase of an LVD
> SCSI IBM Deskstor HD.  I have since been informed that there has been a
> large number of failures of this line.  Would anyone on the group have a
> comment on this?  I am wondering whether to have the drive returned for
> credit and purchase another manufacturer, Seagate comes to mind.  It has
> not been installed yet.

I can confirm that Ive had problems with these drives.
I also have a server with Seagate drives that has never had a problem.
So my gut feeling is to go with Seagates even if they cost more.
(BTW, IBM sold the drive business to Hitachi, so I would avoid them too).


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