HD overall quality decreasing this year / last year?

[TauCeti]

Yo!

If have experiences with harddiscs for about 10 years now. The last year i have
noticed a considerable decrease in quality. We use about 10 HDs a year for
our own desktops and servers in the company. Last year and this year 5 out
of 12 HDs broke in normal use before 6 month usage time. We use IBM Deskstars
and Seagate IDE Barracuda IDE for the Desktop systems. Perhaps it was just
VERY bad luck, but i would be interested in your opinion. Perhaps the
price-wars decrease quality-control efficiency???

Tau

 

[snow]

I think it's just what goes along with increasing volumes of production. The more drives going out, the less they pay attention with a finite amount of hours in the day. I'm not saying I approve, but it goes along with the territory. That's why I use SCSI.

 

[Windogg]

If the IBM drives are 75GXPs then the failure rate seems to be in line with what people experience here.

Windogg

 

[TauCeti]

<< [..] I'm not saying I approve, but it goes along with the territory. That's why I use SCSI. >>



Hmm, i was told once that the SCSI drives from one manufacturer use the same mechanics but a
different electrical interface (same rpm as prerequesite) but i believe that no longer holds
true (if it ever was) - maybe i will pay the triple price tag next time.

The Seagates where REALLY bad - breaking down after 2 weeks, 2 months and 3 month ( Hey - one is still
operating and i can boil eggs on that one after 30minutes).

IBM HD was 60GXP series and 40GV - But only 2 bad one and about 5 good IBMs the last 12 month.

btw: our praehistoric SCSI-650MB Full-Size (2 Bays!) 51/4 Seagate Monster (build 1992??) is still operative

 

[snow]

seagates are always hot and noisy. No thanks. I use fuji, ibm, and quantum/maxtor SCSI drives

As for data, I still use IDE b/c of cost but am mirroring

 

[Pabster]

TauCeti wrote:

&quot;Hmm, i was told once that the SCSI drives from one manufacturer use the same mechanics but a
different electrical interface (same rpm as prerequesite) but i believe that no longer holds
true (if it ever was) - maybe i will pay the triple price tag next time.&quot;

That's not true at all. There have been a few series of IDE drives &quot;based&quot; (loosely) on a particular SCSI drive, but for the most part, the two drives are entirely different. SCSI drives overall last longer and hold up much better under &quot;extreme&quot; loads (RAID, etc) where IDE fails quickly and quite easily at times. That's why SCSI drives are sold with longer warranties and have significantly higher MTBF ratings.

Once you see the SCSI light, you never go back. I never once believed it, until I found out for myself. I'll never go back to IDE.