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zoom3+1=4 Send message Joined: 30 Nov 03 Posts: 65709 Credit: 55,293,173 RAC: 49 |
I would have recommended Maxtor; however, as Seagate has taken over Maxtor recently, I am hesitant to make such a recommendation. In my experience, and from friends' and colleagues' experiences with Seagate Drives - they tend to fail early and have even greater Dead In Box issues. I myself have had many such experiences in the past, and this has left a very VERY bad taste in my mouth pertaining to Seagate. Drive makers have bad batches, I've had the Raptors since Nov 2007, No problems. 10,000rpm and sata, nice. To each their own. The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's |
OzzFan Send message Joined: 9 Apr 02 Posts: 15691 Credit: 84,761,841 RAC: 28 |
Drive makers have bad batches, I've had the Raptors since Nov 2007, No problems. 10,000rpm and sata, nice. To each their own. Yeah, unfortunately Maxtor never recovered their reputation from their bad batches. Though I've never actually encountered any of their infamous bad drives, plenty people apparently have and it has stuck with them long enough to kill the reputation of the company. I would've rather seen it happen to WD though. From my experience they should've been the ones bought out and confined to the footnotes in history. |
zoom3+1=4 Send message Joined: 30 Nov 03 Posts: 65709 Credit: 55,293,173 RAC: 49 |
Drive makers have bad batches, I've had the Raptors since Nov 2007, No problems. 10,000rpm and sata, nice. To each their own. In any case I've had good ones from all I mentioned, Except Hitachi. Of course I've also had drives from other makers, But I can't remember some of them(Conner is one), None were bad though. The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's |
Dr. C.E.T.I. Send message Joined: 29 Feb 00 Posts: 16019 Credit: 794,685 RAC: 0 |
note: jumpin' in here for a moment Regarding SEAGATE & WD . . . i personally have NEVER had a problem with EITHER of these Drives safe when i used the WRONG CABLE - the latest cables (without LIGHTS please) worked like a charm . . . compatiblity issues w/ cables were THE ONLY Problems i ever encountered . . . well - baCk ta Y'All . . . thought i might mention this! [edit note] i always bought the Drives in California and now in North Carolina for the Past 4 Years . . . |
RandyC Send message Joined: 20 Oct 99 Posts: 714 Credit: 1,704,345 RAC: 0 |
Drive makers have bad batches, I've had the Raptors since Nov 2007, No problems. 10,000rpm and sata, nice. To each their own. I see you must have a time machine also... ;-) |
Pappa Send message Joined: 9 Jan 00 Posts: 2562 Credit: 12,301,681 RAC: 0 |
I wam not sure what this has to do with What is Needed! If it makes you feels good then so be it... User hardware versus Server hardware... What is posted, is what Seti needs... and there is a lot of email back and forth that you do not know about... Stupid, Me I am only the messenger... Thank You, to those that have responded and the 20th we will see changes... Please consider a Donation to the Seti Project. |
zoom3+1=4 Send message Joined: 30 Nov 03 Posts: 65709 Credit: 55,293,173 RAC: 49 |
Drive makers have bad batches, I've had the Raptors since Nov 2007, No problems. 10,000rpm and sata, nice. To each their own. I meant Nov 2006, I just have concentration problems as I'm disabled, So It does happen sometimes. The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's |
Pappa Send message Joined: 9 Jan 00 Posts: 2562 Credit: 12,301,681 RAC: 0 |
Evening Everyone I received a copy of this Email this afternoon... Quote Hello hardware donors, I've BCCed you all on this so as not to violate the anonymity of those that wish to remain anonymous. Thanks to your donations, kryten is officially out of the mix, having been replaced by "bruno" the dual 2.8GHz Xeon with 12GB RAM, 6x73GB SCSI drives in a 2U case with 12x37 GB external FiberChannel drives. This should help us avoid all of the upload problems we've had over the last several months. You all had a part in this. We couldn't have done it without you. Thank you! Eric End Quote Thank You Everyone! Edit: Those donations represented around $6000 (known and unkown) Please consider a Donation to the Seti Project. |
nelson Send message Joined: 28 Mar 07 Posts: 1 Credit: 62 RAC: 0 |
I'm join in this projiect since 2007 |
Dr. C.E.T.I. Send message Joined: 29 Feb 00 Posts: 16019 Credit: 794,685 RAC: 0 |
I'm join in this projiect since 2007 CONGRATULATIONS nelson - WelcoME to SETI BOINC . . . @ Pappa - Thank You Sir!!! (for ALL thaT YOU arE doing within . . .;) BOINC Wiki . . . Science Status Page . . . |
Pappa Send message Joined: 9 Jan 00 Posts: 2562 Credit: 12,301,681 RAC: 0 |
Okay things that are still needed: Sata II 750 Gig Drives Times 24 about $248 on the internet. This will help to get data back and forth (Multibeam), and create proper storage towards Near Time Persistency Checking... CHEETAH 73GB 10K SCSI HDD ST173404FC Fiberchannel 8+ needed... This gets tougher... about the best going deal I can find is on eBay with a buy it now of $115 each New Seagate ST173404FC CHEETAH 73.4GB Hard Drive Listed as New drives. this is to take care of the red lights in the NepApp Storage that should not have dismissed... "There are No Spares, but I did not say that..." Now for the Server Side We see three high power Servers... We here people complain about "Where is the Science?" Well for Near Time Persistency Checking a New High Power server(s) are needed... There are roughly Half a GaZillion Results to run though it... And users keep shoving in another million a day.... Grin... Next week I should have a small addendum to the list as they are sorting what they can work with if they do not get the new servers... Regards Pappa Please consider a Donation to the Seti Project. |
zoom3+1=4 Send message Joined: 30 Nov 03 Posts: 65709 Credit: 55,293,173 RAC: 49 |
Okay things that are still needed: Sounds like Data is coming in like a runaway train. Well due to a psu problem, One of My PCs is out of action and a (new)5th is out till one for It can be bought in June. The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's |
Peter Sprogis Send message Joined: 3 Mar 07 Posts: 59 Credit: 248,033,068 RAC: 15 |
Sir Pappa, i cannot use any of the payment systems listed to donate money; therefore i need details of an appropriate bank account - acc number, bank name/address, sort code,acc name,and an ABA number. |
Pappa Send message Joined: 9 Jan 00 Posts: 2562 Credit: 12,301,681 RAC: 0 |
Peter Please email al.setiboinc (at) gmail.com (replace the (at) with the @ symbol) I will put you in touch with Eric to handle the transaction... Sir Pappa, i cannot use any of the payment systems listed to donate money; therefore i need details of an appropriate bank account - acc number, bank name/address, sort code,acc name,and an ABA number. Please consider a Donation to the Seti Project. |
Jim Franklin Send message Joined: 3 Apr 99 Posts: 108 Credit: 10,843,395 RAC: 39 |
Timelord...Generally these are called DEATHSTARS for a VERY good reason, they are unreliable rubbish. Over the years of running SETI, 8 years now, I have run various machines and various numbers, and you can all imagine the hardware diversity that produced at times. There was a short period of time when I ran 54 machines at the same time, and in all that I had a mix of drives from WD, Seagate, Fujitsu, IBM, Samsung and Hitachi. In those days, prior to the Hitachi/IBM marriage, Hitachi drives were solid and reliable, the old IBM deathstars where a pile of rubbish and I eventually replaced them all and binned them..couldn't be bothered to sell them on ebay or give them away they were that bad. Overall Seagate IDE drives proved to be the most reliable, yes I had the odd failure, but the law of averages means some would, Fujitsu were also very strong, just difficult to obtain, WD drives are strong, but they do have firmware issues, they always have and I don't think WD give a stuff. I have moved Database files corrupted and even experienced this corruption on BMS systems that utilised WD drives. get rid of the WD's and the problem evaporates, it is not limited to Linux machines I can assure you of that. Over the years the most reliable drives by a million miles is Seagate and Samsung. I have three machines running that are using old Seagate and one Samsung drive as the boot drives that are as old as my time in the project almost. One Seagate is actually older as it originated in a Dell XPS 400 I bought way back in 1996 and is a measly 10GB or there abouts..XP takes up half the drive!! |
Blurf Send message Joined: 2 Sep 06 Posts: 8962 Credit: 12,678,685 RAC: 0 |
REQUEST for anyone involved: Can we have a documented list here of what has been donated hardware wise since January 1st please? No names of donators...just specifically what hardware has been donated? Thank you |
zombie67 [MM] Send message Joined: 22 Apr 04 Posts: 758 Credit: 27,771,894 RAC: 0 |
Is there an updated version of this list? http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/sah_budget.php Also, it would help if the hardware needs were detailed better. Dublin, California Team: SETI.USA |
Grant (SSSF) Send message Joined: 19 Aug 99 Posts: 13722 Credit: 208,696,464 RAC: 304 |
Also, it would help if the hardware needs were detailed better. Such as an explicit wish list? Grant Darwin NT |
zombie67 [MM] Send message Joined: 22 Apr 04 Posts: 758 Credit: 27,771,894 RAC: 0 |
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Demiurg Send message Joined: 2 Jul 02 Posts: 883 Credit: 28,286 RAC: 0 |
Such as an explicit wish list? I have about four tons of computer junk, some of it pretty new (2 years) containing among them five SUN E5500 fully expanded, memory, motherboard, small servers (Dual-Xeons) and so on. Some of it is taken home by staff, but most of it is going straight to recycling. I could pretty much swear that some of it would be usefull. Problem is mostly shipping, but at least memory, motherboards and processors are possible to ship. Ontop of that we are sharing house with four other computer laboratories with about equal amount of junk. Together we could cram together some pretty monstrous servers which are running two year old technology. So with a wish list... Carl It is SEXY to DONATE! Skype = demiurg2 |
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