On the other hand, I'm not going with IBM and Fujitsu, because of the controversy about failure rates that weren't getting acknowledged by either IBM or Fujitsu. Mainly because I had two IBM disks go bad, along with one Fujitsu disk fairly recently.

At the moment, I am mostly buying Seagate drives.

I had an odd experience recently.

I ordered 2 18Gb IBM SCSI SCA drives from www.scan.co.uk but the drives that turned up were actually Seagate drives (model number ST318305LC). They have been re-badged as IBM drives, but there is no mention of them anywhere on the IBM website.

Unfortunately they are a tiny bit smaller (in capacity) that my other 18Gb IBM drives in my RAID array, so they are completely useless for the purpose I bought the for. Looks like my desktop machine is going to be upgrading to SCSI drives. I assume that I can get converters so that I can plug these SCA drives into my Adaptec 29160N SCSI card ?

P.S. if you buy anything from Scan, don't expect a sensible response when you want to return it for some reason. They are cheap though...