[lug] IDE RAID and good hardrives

[j davis]

Hello,
So I am mailing the list today from my hotmail account due to
the crashing of my workstations linux drive(in windoz now).
This drive makes 138 gigs lost in less that a year. 120 of those
gigs were drives that were less than a year old. The three 40gig'ers
were IBM,WD,Maxtor. The only drive I have now had more than a year that has 
not crashed is a 40gig Segate.

Can some one tell me whos drives have the longest ETBF and maybe
a good site that keeps up with such things...I mean one minute
IBM is the best...next thing you know there putting out IDE lemons!
So hard to keep up...

So, I am going to order a IDE raid card...proably the 3ware 7000
that George Sexton reviewed not to long ago. So...George..is that
still working out pretty good?

I would like to mirror 2 80 gig drives and format as fat so windoz
and Linux can have access...does anyone forsee a problem with this?

One last.. I have read about breaking a mirrored raid set. Looks
stright forward on paper. Is this the case in real life?

Thanks Alot,
jd
jd at taproot.bz





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