stevel@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Steve Ligett) (07/25/89)
In article <428@mathrt0.math.chalmers.se> olle@molndal.ericsson.se (Olle Wikstrom) writes: ... >I have been talking to the sales people at Gateway. They gave >me this info: "the SCSI disk (ST297N w ST02 controller) is >more error prune than the MFM disk (ST4096 w a DTC controller) >and it is incompatible with OS/2 and network software." The SCSI >drive also heats up quicker they claim. > ... To check this up I called the company >"Hard Disks" and talked to a person there that appeared to >be very competent. He said that they have never heard of >the problems that Gateway was talking about. Instead he said >that the 296 had a MTBF of 35000h and the 4096 10000h. So he >would say that the 296 was the best buy of these. ... >Olle Wikstrom I don't have any info about Gateway (well, I've read recent articles, but I have no experience with Gateway), but I have the following info from Seagate. Here's a table of MTBFs for their drives: Product Previous Current MTBF MTBF ST157 family 50000 hr 70000 hr (ST125, ST125A/N, ST138, ST138R/A/N, ST157R/A/N) ST1096 family 40000 hr 50000 hr (ST151, ST177N, ST1096N) ST225 family 50000 hr 100000 hr (ST225, ST225R/N, ST238R, ST250R) ST251 50000 hr 100000 hr ST277R 50000 hr 70000 hr ST251N 45000 hr 70000 hr ST277N 45000 hr 70000 hr ST296N 45000 hr 70000 hr ST4096 family 30000 hr 40000 hr (ST4053, ST4096, ST4144R) Where, for example, ST138R/A/N means ST138R, ST138A, and ST138N. Steve Ligett steve.ligett@dartmouth.edu or (decvax harvard linus true)!dartvax!steve.ligett