6 Dec
2000
6 Dec
'00
4:32 p.m.
On Dec 6, 12:54, r. 'bear' stricklin wrote:
That's nice to know, that's what I bought for my servers.
On Tue, 5 Dec 2000 THETechnoid(a)home.com wrote:
Maybe. I have a really nice 5MB Olivetti drive. It's 5 1/4" full height,
has an excellent stepper motor, and nicely distracts you from the noise of
the air conditioning.
Miniscribe 3650
I think I had one of these. 3.5" HH 40 MB MFM disk? ca. 60ms seek
times? Loudest drive I've ever heard. How about the Exabyte 8200? Famous for forgetting they
had tapes in them
and refusing to eject. Not only that, but it was commonly referred to as
the 'write once, read never' backup media.
I haven't had that problem with mine. Come to think of it, that one's been
upgraded a couple of times. Unlike the one I gave away. I can't seem to
remember why I gave it away ;-)
We won't talk about the TK50.
You're right, we won't, please. If anyone really needs to know why, take a
look at http://home.xnet.com/~raven/Sysadmin/ASR.Posts.html#tk50
I will, however, nominate any hard disk Micropolis
made which was in a
smaller form factor than 5.25" FH. Garbage.
:-)
Oh, and the Seagate Barracudas. Ran so fast they
burned themselves up. At
one point we had a 50% DOA rate on these drives. The remaining ones
usually fried inside of 30 days. We never did figure out how Seagate
managed to come up with their 500k-hour MTBF on these disks.
Well, you have to understand what MTBF means. It means that after some
number of hours, some proportion of the test set has a 50% chance of
failure. Nobody said anything about powering them up during that period.
Never put a Barracuda in an SGI Indy or Indigo, it may invalidate your
warranty. In fact, it may invalidate several things. Permanently.
How about a
vote on the BEST disk drives ever?
The IBM UltraStar ES. Nah, I had a 4096N which had stiction. It took
progressively stronger
shocks to the chassis to get it to spin up, until finally I was beating
it
with a shoe. That situation ultimately ended in a head
crash and data
loss.
Sounds like my ST451N (? I think) which exploded. After a while the
stiction was so annoying that I cut a screwdriver slot in the exposed part
of the spindle. That was fine until one day a head stuck *while it was
spinning*...
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
Dept. of Computer Science
University of York