Hitachi vs Seagate: Opinions wanted

[David Sze]

At 03:11 PM 29/06/2004 -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote this to All:

>I've always used Seagate or Quantum drives in my servers ... with the 
>recent thought about switching to Dual-Athlon servers, from Intel, and the 
>caveats about both heat and power that I've had, its been recommended 
>switching to Hitachi drives from the usual Seagate ... also, apparently 
>the failure rates are higher on the Seagate's are much higher then the 
>Hitachi ...
>
>Since I can't say I've ever had a complaint (other then the U320 firmware 
>fiasco that Seagate did fix), I'm wondering if there is that much of a 
>difference with the Hitachi's to warrant the extra ~$50/drive ... ?
>
>The server we are putting together will be a 2U chassis, with 6 U320 
>drives in it ... either hitachi or seagate ...

If you will be using a motherboard with an LSI Logic chipset (mpt driver 
under FreeBSD), definitely do _not_ get Hitachi/IBM drives.

There's a weird interaction that causes the OS not to boot if there is more 
than one Hitachi drive attached to an mpt controller.  A single drive works 
fine.