If you are referring to the 4.3 Seagate drives in the Jamacia enclosures, we use them rather extensively (around 100+ of them).  They work rather well, but we also notice that usually when we install a large number of them, we get a few failures right away.  If you can make it past around the first month or so, you should be fine with only minimal failures.  I can only guess that some batches of the discs are destined to fail fast.

Gary L. Paveza, Jr.
Technical Support Specialist
All opinions are mine and not those of my employer

-----Original Message-----
From:   Nick Perna [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
Sent:   Tuesday, June 23, 1998 11:32 PM
To:     [log in to unmask]@inetgw
Subject:        Help! 4.3 gb drives failing

We have installed the new storage unit that holds 8 of the new 4.3 gb
drives (we have 4 drives installed in this unit).  These drives were
installed just two weeks ago and we've since had 2 of the drives fail.
And since they didn't fail at the same time we've been busy doing
reloads.  My question to all of you is:  Is anyone else having problems
with these drives or was this just a fluke?  We're down right now and
any input about the reliablitity of these drives is appreciated.