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> I have had two drives (out of three Micropolis drives total) fail, the 2210
> failed after 6 months and was replaced.  The first replacement was around a
> year old and it was replaced, the first Micropolis (ESDI) has not failed
> (frantically knocking on wood).  The point is both Micropolis SCSI drives
> have failed.
> 
> Anyone have an opinion if this was merely bad luck, or if this could be
> considered normal for Micropolis?  How do they rank up in the drive makers
> in terms of reliability?

I've had some bad luck with the micropolis 2217s.  It wasn't entirely 
their fault.  I first one I got ran fine before it got hit by the
monkey virus.  Not knowing the real problem, and thinking that I had
the drives spaced too closely together, I thought it overheated and 
exchanged it for another.  The second 2217s had a revision A on the 
label, and there were some patch wires on the belly, the drive
formatted to 100mb less than the first one (on the same host adapter.) 
When I discovered the virus, and how to correct it, it would not let me 
low-level it.  Another small scsi drive I had that was infected by
the virus low-leveled fine.  I am now exchanging it for a Quantum 1.8 gig.  

A friend of mine was settin up a Novell Server with the 2217s 1 week and 
a half ago.  The first drive died during the setup test.  The second 
2217s went fine though.

I don't know if this is merely a rash or what.  I used to think that
micropolis had a good reputation.  But their tech support is still 
excellent. 

By the way, Quantum is discontinuing their 1.8 gig and coming out r-e-a-lly
slowly with the 2.1 gig.  Seagate is also dropping their 1.7 gig line, I
think.

hope it helps,

Theresa@acm.org