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[Peter-SexyWing]

Hi

I find this drive very attractive, price at newegg is ONLY $179.99, HALF price of seagate same type

I did search on WHT and found that someone mentioned Fujitsu usually appear on GOV 's server? isn;t it a good sign if gov dept use it?

I then go check rackmountsetc.com and apaq digital, none of them use it

any one has real experiences on it and any pre-built servers provider could try provide it ?

[Krazy]

Fujitsu are pretty good, make sure you get the original disks.

[WebNX]

Originally Posted by Peter-SexyWing

Hi

I find this drive very attractive, price at newegg is ONLY $179.99, HALF price of seagate same type

I did search on WHT and found that someone mentioned Fujitsu usually appear on GOV 's server? isn;t it a good sign if gov dept use it?

I then go check rackmountsetc.com and apaq digital, none of them use it

any one has real experiences on it and any pre-built servers provider could try provide it ?

The reason that is so cheap is its not SAS, its old school scsi u320. If you're going to do a modern setup using newer raid cards you would want MBA3147RC (not NC). We have over 1,000 of the MBA3147RC's in use and the failure rate is rather low, we are quite happy with them. We also have alot of the Seagate 15k.6 drives in use, both are nice drives. Good luck.

[Peter-SexyWing]

Originally Posted by WebNX

The reason that is so cheap is its not SAS, its old school scsi u320. If you're going to do a modern setup using newer raid cards you would want MBA3147RC (not NC). We have over 1,000 of the MBA3147RC's in use and the failure rate is rather low, we are quite happy with them. We also have alot of the Seagate 15k.6 drives in use, both are nice drives. Good luck.

thanks, this is a nice and valuable information!

[Peter-SexyWing]

oh good, "RC" at newegg is same price to NC

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...&Tpk=MBA3147RC

[Peter-SexyWing]

we did buy these Fujutsu drives, so far so good

However, We did just find seagate slashed their SAS 15K 146G 's price!

Seagate Cheetah 15K.6 ST3146356SS 146GB 15000 RPM 16MB Cache SAS 3Gb/s 3.5"

only $190 now
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822148558

If you could choose between, which one you will choose?

[VINAX]

Both drives are good, reliable. Fujisu is $10 cheaper, plus Free Shipping.

[bqinternet]

Fujitsu makes good drives. They're not as popular, probably because of lack of marketing, but they're quality drives.

[JFSG]

Originally Posted by bqinternet

Fujitsu makes good drives. They're not as popular, probably because of lack of marketing, but they're quality drives.

Their laptop's quality kinda suck. Or is it that only their drives are decent?

[Visbits]

Originally Posted by JFSG

Their laptop's quality kinda suck. Or is it that only their drives are decent?

Running a 160GB Fujitsu in my thinkpad t61, dropped it a few times now and its just fine...

[bqinternet]

Originally Posted by JFSG

Their laptop's quality kinda suck. Or is it that only their drives are decent?

I haven't tried their laptops. It's possible

[linuxissues]

Using a bunch of Fujitsu MBA3147RC for a while now, no issues, and was cheaper than all the others. They are good drives.