Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!pilot.njin.net!psuvax1!psuvm!EMUVM1!USCLM From: USCLM@EMUVM1.BITNET Newsgroups: bit.listserv.novell Subject: Responce to problems with ST4096 drives Message-ID: Date: 28 Feb 90 03:09:11 GMT Sender: Novell LAN Interest Group Reply-To: Novell LAN Interest Group Lines: 17 Approved: NETNEWS@PSUVM.BITNET Gateway David Hulrey recently posted that he has had a greater than 50% failure rate with Seagate 4096 80 MB drives. I feel bad for him. We have had a lot of problems with the Seagate drives. The worst being the ST238 (rll) 30 mb drives. I don't have the stats available, but we have purchased over a 1000 of them and have had problems in about 1/3rd or more of them. We are using ST4053 (40 mb) and ST4096 (80 mb) drives in our Novell servers. I personally haven't had my ST4096 fail in my server (which has been running for 1.5 yrs), but I have users who have replaced a few. Overall, my experience with Seagate's MFM drives (ST225,ST4053,ST4096) is acceptable (I would like better though) and the RLL drives (ST238) well, I wouldn't recommend one to my enemy :-). Craig Myers Emory University Information Technology Division