[Sunhelp] Quality of parts used by Sun

[Paul Khoury - Tech Support]

At 06:30 PM 4/23/00 -0500, you wrote:
>On Sun, Apr 23, 2000 at 04:09:10PM -0700, Paul Khoury - Tech Support wrote:
>> What's wrong with Micropolis?
>
>1.  Total garbage - every Micrapolis drve I ever had, failed.  At one of
>my jobs, there was an official policy that anybody who used a Microp drive in
>a production system, would get canned.  They were THAT bad.  I had two brand-
>new 2.1gig drives go back within 24 hours of a Solaris install.

Wow - I've seen some flaky ones, but I've always found them really good.

>
>> At least it's not a Rodime or Microscience.  Anyone remember those?
>> Especially
>> Rodime - yuck.
>
>Wasnt rodime the company that filled product boxes in the warehouse with
>bricks and then shipped them?

Dunno - but their stuff is s**t.  I haven't dealt personally with
Microscience,
but I have friends whom I just mention them or Rodime, and they just start
swearing... =)

And I've dealt with Rodime... ugh...

>If I dont end up going SCSI with this box, I'll put a 40x Toshiba in - thats
>what I had in my "built from parts" Ultra5, and it worked great.
>
Yeah, never had a problem with a Toshiba.

Even their crap 3201 drives work for me, with the faceplate smashed in even,
or other problems... =) (but they're better for stress reliving).




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Paul Khoury
Tech Support
pkhoury3 at earthlink.net