[ale] Who has the best drives?

[Denny Chambers]

My two cents:

	Back in my days of Sysadmin work, when I was supporting users and
servers, I preferred Seagate drives for SCSI applications, and Western
Digital drives for IDE application. I always had good reliability from
this combination. But that has been a few years ago.

"Cox, Danny" wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 2002-01-15 at 15:22, Kyle Lussier wrote:
> > > Just my two cents worth. I have always preferred SCSI drives but
> 
>         I, too, PREFER SCSI, but I also must watch the cash, too.  Most of the
> manufactured boxes I've seen, including our current NAS box (Quantum)
> uses IBM drives.  Now, at Connex, we used Western Digitial, but then
> again, we were a wholly owned subsidiary of WD, so no surprise there.
> 
>         I can only hope that the respective companies surveyed the available
> drives, and chose the best they could at the time.  Hey!  I write
> software, not evaluate the hardware!
> 
> --
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> medieval traditions of sorcery and black art.
> 
> Danny
> 
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Denny Chambers
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Network Attached Storage Division
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