SCSI disk opinions

[Roger Oberholtzer]

On Tue, 2005-10-18 at 17:19, Tony Alfrey wrote:
> A. Khattri wrote:
> > On Tue, 18 Oct 2005, Net Llama! wrote:
> > 
> > 
> >>Since we're bashing, also avoid Hitachi.  While their SCSI drive
> >>reliability wasn't bad, their RMA policy is draconian and insulting.
> > 
> > 
> > Just in case you didn't know - Hitachi bought IBM's storage business so
> > their disks are based on the "Deathstar" ones...
> > 
> > 
> 
> and I have Seagate SCSI drives.  They are not cheap, but one day when I 
> had to replace one that had gone south after a year or two, and I 
> casually called them up to see about specs or some such thing, the 
> person on the other end took the serial number off the drive, told me 
> that the drive was still under warranty, told me to stick it in a box 
> and send it back for a replacement.  I think that they even sent me some 
> sort of RMA label by e-mail to stick on the box.  So needless to say, I 
> am happy with Seagate drives.

Not a bad word for Seagate. OK.

But on to the hard part, as it turns out. I will be getting a computer
chassis with a SCA backplane. It is 80-pin SCSI. I thought finding a
nice disk to put on one side of this and a nice host adapter on the
other would be easy. Think again. It is probably made worse by the
really crappy details from the chassis maker. Anyway, SCSI controllers
for 80-pin disks are scarce on the ground. And I do not want some
zillion dollar raid thing. Thank heaven for google...

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