[Sunhelp] Quality of parts used by Sun

[Robert.Cross at scottish-newcastle.co.uk]

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Lord Bill of Bradford scripteth:
>Actually, I personally consider the most reliable drives to be those by
>IBM or Seagate.. 
>Never had an IBM fail on me.  yet.

Previous job we had awful problems with a 'stiction' (apologies for spelling) 
problem
on the IBM disks in our SGI's. Disks would make a slight whinning in use, then 
they would
beep and not work on the next reboot. SGI ended up replacing a good load of 
them, kindof 
soured me on IBM product for a good while.

That said, in my current job IBM disks appear no more or less reliable than 
anyone
elses. Performance wise they appear to be really good - put an UltraStar 9.1GB 
in
a diddy little SS2 and it absolutely flies. We've had a few go u/s in our AIX 
kit, but given
the usage they get, a few failures  are to be expected.

Must admit to a personal bias towards Seagate or Quantum gear for reliability, 
but I like
IBM technology.

Bob Cross.
Text above is mine, text below is my employers (for whom I am not representing 
in any way)


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