Hitachi vs Seagate: Opinions wanted

[Jason A. Crome]

I can't imagine a higher failure rate than we've had with Hitachi drives.
Of the 15 or so servers we've built for customers using Hitachi drives over
the last 2 years, 6 of them came back after about a year of operation with
catastrophic drive failures.  And unfortunately it wasn't just a bad batch
of drives - they were manufactured at entirely different times.

Sooooo, I guess give the two options, I'd say Seagate ;-)

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Jason A. Crome
Senior Software Engineer, DEVNET, Inc.
E-Mail: crome at devnetinc.com
http://www.devnetinc.com
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-hardware at freebsd.org 
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-hardware at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Marc 
> G. Fournier
> Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2004 1:12 PM
> To: freebsd-scsi at freebsd.org
> Cc: freebsd-hardware at freebsd.org
> Subject: Hitachi vs Seagate: Opinions wanted 
> 
> 
> I've always used Seagate or Quantum drives in my servers ... 
> with the recent thought about switching to Dual-Athlon 
> servers, from Intel, and the caveats about both heat and 
> power that I've had, its been recommended switching to 
> Hitachi drives from the usual Seagate ... also, apparently 
> the failure rates are higher on the Seagate's are much higher 
> then the Hitachi ...
> 
> Since I can't say I've ever had a complaint (other then the 
> U320 firmware fiasco that Seagate did fix), I'm wondering if 
> there is that much of a difference with the Hitachi's to 
> warrant the extra ~$50/drive ... ?
> 
> The server we are putting together will be a 2U chassis, with 
> 6 U320 drives in it ... either hitachi or seagate ...
> 
> Thoughts?  Opinions?
> 
> 
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