Re: hardware doctors!

[Sajjad Zaidi <sajjad@example.com>]

Jonathan Byrne wrote:

> Both for our personal use and for use in servers and workstations,
> IBM is our brand of choice.  "I've never had one fail on me"
> is junk testimony because of small samples (I have a 5 year
> old WD Caviar that is the soul of reliability - YMMV), but we
> have many IBM drives in service and are very happy with price,
> performance, and reliability.

Same here, but not the WD part. Second choice is probably Seagate.

>
> Plus, even if you have had a disk fail, that means nothing.
> A certain percentage of every brand fails.  That's why there's an
> MTBF spec.  Now, if everyone you know has had a disk from maker
> X fail (especially if they were all recent failiures), that is
> cause for caution (or concern, if you have one yourself).

Im strongly biased against Fujitsus. Ive had at least two brand new drives fail
on me and a number of used ones. They usually develop bad blocks really fast
although the SCSIs are not so bad.