[Gllug] re: software vs hardware RAID

Christopher Hunter chrisehunter at blueyonder.co.uk
Thu Nov 4 07:42:53 UTC 2004


On Wednesday 03 Nov 2004 22:54, Chris Bell wrote:
> On Wed 03 Nov, Huw Lynes wrote:
> > I submit that 70Gb Seagate Cheetahs(SCSI) and the IBM DeathStars prove
> > you wrong.
>
>    Is there a known problem with that specific variety of Seagate drive?

AFAIK - yes.  I had several die in unfortunate circumstances, and other 
capacities seem little better.  The Seagate IDE drives seem mostly OK, but 
their SCSI ones are a joke.  I've also had IBM DeskStar drives fail straight 
out of the box!

Chris

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