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In article <4ao54e$kfh@cnn.Princeton.EDU> davelee@davelee (David H. Lee) writes:
>From: davelee@davelee (David H. Lee)
>Subject: Advice on *Reliable* 4 Gig SCSI
>Date: 14 Dec 1995 03:19:42 GMT



>I'm in the market for a reliable 4 Gig SCSI drive for my new Micron P-133 
>system.  After scanning the groups it would appear that the Seagate 
>barracudas have a bad tendency towards heat-related failure..

>At the moment, i'm considering the Micropolis 4 Gig SCSI drive, the 
>M3???, with the 7200 rpm spindle speed and 8.5 ms access time..

>Has anyone had any reliability problems with this drive? 

>Also, can you recommend any other brands?

We've being using the seagate hawk (5200 rpm) for over a year without a 
problem.

Daniel Tran - dtran@ucla.edu

David H. Lee (davelee@davelee) wrote:
: 
: 
: I'm in the market for a reliable 4 Gig SCSI drive for my new Micron P-133 
: system.  After scanning the groups it would appear that the Seagate 
: barracudas have a bad tendency towards heat-related failure..
: 
: At the moment, i'm considering the Micropolis 4 Gig SCSI drive, the 
: M3???, with the 7200 rpm spindle speed and 8.5 ms access time..
: 
: Has anyone had any reliability problems with this drive? 
: 
: Also, can you recommend any other brands?
: 

My ISP went through a number of Micropolis 4Gig drives in a short period
of time (about 3 months).  I believe they had about 4 or 5 of these go
bad.  I don't know the model numbers unfortunately.

I'm using Seagate Barracudas (14 2G drives) in a Pyramid.  No problems
what-so-ever with them in 8 months of operation.  I believe the trick,
is to insure that they get plenty of air-flow over them to insure they
are able to disapate the heat properly.
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David H. Lee wrote:
> : I'm in the market for a reliable 4 Gig SCSI drive for my new Micron 
P-133
: system.  After scanning the groups it would appear that the Seagate
: barracudas have a bad tendency towards heat-related failure..
: 
: At the moment, i'm considering the Micropolis 4 Gig SCSI drive, the
: M3???, with the 7200 rpm spindle speed and 8.5 ms access time..
: 
: Has anyone had any reliability problems with this drive?
: 
: Also, can you recommend any other brands?

I don't know about this model, however, micropolis is a class act.  I've
never had any problems with any drive of theirs that I've ever owned and
I've owned many of their drives.  I'm sure someone can/will come up with
a horror story but I'm sold.

In article <30D4E56B.5624@glass.biosci.arizona.edu>,
Jim Warder  <acmejim@glass.biosci.arizona.edu> wrote:
>David H. Lee wrote:
>> : I'm in the market for a reliable 4 Gig SCSI drive for my new Micron 
>P-133
>: system.  After scanning the groups it would appear that the Seagate
>: barracudas have a bad tendency towards heat-related failure..

I have one 2GB Barracuda (old version) that runs hot, but has been reliable.

I have three 4GB Barracudas which have given no problems whatsoever.  The
oldest is about a year old now, if I remember correctly.

All of the drives are running with Adaptec 2740/2740A controllers in 486
EISA machines running NetWare.  I'm running with defaults, i.e., I have
not turned off the cache, tag queueing, etc.

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I have a quantum 4300 4.3Gb hard drive.
This is a very good drive.
I have only had it for a month but it seems to work fine.
I did run it for a day without cooling.
It ran at 45 degrees C when it's max operating temperature is 55 degrees C
I have now put a fan blowing on the  drive  and it's temperature down to
30 degrees C, which should increase it's life span and reliablilty.

BFN

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David H. Lee (davelee@davelee) wrote:
: I'm in the market for a reliable 4 Gig SCSI drive for my new Micron P-133 
: system.  After scanning the groups it would appear that the Seagate 
: barracudas have a bad tendency towards heat-related failure..

Many people have heat related failures because they think a 4GB drive can 
survive with the same abuse as their old 200MB drive.

I've heard nothing but good comments from Barracuda owners who properly 
house and cool their drives with an adequate fan and air path.