Refurbished Seagate 36ES any good?

[The JoJo]

Just got myself 2 18gb 36ES refurbished Seagate SCSI drives. Does anyone have any experience from them? As a drive and as Seagate refurbished drives? Do I dare put something valuable on them?

Thanks in advance...

 

[Clocker]

I'm using two 18GB 10K 36ESs in a WinXP stripe. They seem like great drives to me. The 36ES has a nicer tone than the Atlas 10K III IMO and the performance is just as good if I remember my SR reviews correctly...

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[CougTek]

IIRC, there's been two Seagate 36ES from Seagate : Barracuda 36ES and Cheetah 36ES. The former was a slug, but the latter was an acceptable desktop (not server) hard drive. Its main problem was its relatively high cost compared to almost-as-fast IDE hard drives.

...scratch the IIRC above, I was right, just verified. Here's the review of the Cheetah 36ES. Its main strenght, IMO, is its high STR.

 

[Groltz]

Timwhit: How is your Cheetah 36ES holding up?

 

[CougTek]

Do I dare put something valuable on them?

While I have little knowledge about Seagate's refurbished drives, their SCSI drives, on the whole, are very reliable. I wouldn't be worry if I were you.

 

[Clocker]

IIRC, there's been two Seagate 36ES from Seagate : Barracuda 36ES and Cheetah 36ES. The former was a slug, but the latter was an acceptable desktop (not server) hard drive. Its main problem was its relatively high cost compared to almost-as-fast IDE hard drives.

...scratch the IIRC above, I was right, just verified. Here's the review of the Cheetah 36ES. Its main strenght, IMO, is its high STR.

Oh yeah I forgot to mention. I have the Cheetah 36ESs. I agree STR is a strong suit but they are pretty quiet too (for a 10K SCSI). In my WinXP stripe, I'm getting close to 100MB/sec.

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[The JoJo]

Thanks for the info everyone.

Yup, they are Cheetahs. Sorry, forgot to mention that.

I now have a Atlas10k3, X15-36LP and the two Cheetah 36ES SCSI drives in my system, along with 1GB of ram and a AthlonXP2400. Feels good and snappy

The second computer is for storage with some Samsung IDE drives...

 

[timwhit]

Timwhit: How is your Cheetah 36ES holding up?

Still going strong, haven't had a single problem with it. It's also the quietest SCSI drive I have ever owned.