[Sunhelp] Quality of parts used by Sun

[Fuerst, Robert C. (Chris)]

I'm sure this list will go on and on. 
It's almost like saying Ford's are better than Chevy's.

We have only had one Seagate fail in over 15 years. We have about 40 SCSI
drives in various systems and always specify this is what we want when
purchasing systems.
We do not have any UPS systems either and our systems are prone to attack
from blackouts and brownouts, chattering power, etc. as we are in an
industrial facility.  The one drive that did fail was replaced under
warranty which was like 4 years old.

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> From:	A P [SMTP:a_petrescu at hotmail.com]
> Sent:	Tuesday, April 25, 2000 1:13 AM
> To:	sunhelp at sunhelp.org
> Subject:	Re: [Sunhelp] Quality of parts used by Sun
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> It seems that the entire trend is toward less and less reliable parts for 
> the entire industry. I don't think it is only about price - some of the 
> worst products are sold on the market for prices comparable to the 
> traditional brand names like TOSHIBA or FUJITSU.
> I think that it is about the need to sell as much as possible, so if you
> do 
> things to last for ever, people won't buy another one.
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> When I buy parts, I still look at the "Made in [...]" label.
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> About disks, if I need reliability I would use FUJITSU, HITACHI or even
> IBM, 
> not Seagate.
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> For CD-ROM's, TOSHIBA or TEAC are my choices; I had bad times using 
> CREATIVE, SONY, MITSUMI and at least 10 other "brands".
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> --- As always, this is my own opinion ---
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