Imagine being told that the TV or CD Player you had just bought was
"sensitive to power outages". :)

No bloody good, I say. Bring back reliability!

Neil


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Genute, Thomas [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 24, 1998 8:21 PM
> To:   [log in to unmask]
> Subject:      Re: Help! 4.3 gb drives failing
> 
> We have perhaps 10 HAAS units with mostly  ½ height 4.3Gb Seagate
> drives.
> The first unit was installed about a year ago with 4 more in October,
> 2 in
> January and 2 in May.  None of the 4.3Gb drives has failed but we did
> lose
> one 9.5Gb full height drive at less than 3 months service.  The most
> recent
> drives were 9.5Gb ½ height.  I've been told that these units and
> drives are
> sensitive to power outages and should be on a UPS.  Since these were
> all new
> drives, I consider even a single drive failure to be unacceptable and
> therefore I question the reliability of the drives.  However, since
> they are
> hot-swappable, they are very appropriate for use with Mirror/IX.
> 
> 
>