[lug] Hard Drive Manufacturer Suggestion

[Zan Lynx]

On Fri, 2004-12-03 at 16:07 -0700, Frank Whiteley wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Michael Belanger" <mrb at ciclops.org>
> To: "Boulder (Colorado) Linux Users Group -- General Mailing List"
> <lug at lug.boulder.co.us>
> Sent: Friday, December 03, 2004 08:58
> Subject: Re: [lug] Hard Drive Manufacturer Suggestion
> 
> 
> > I highly recommend IBM harddrives.. I have been using them for years
> > without any problems -- and great performance.
> >
> > I have also had good luck with Maxtor HDD's.
> >
> > I have had TERRIBLE luck with Hitachi (specifically, their thinkpad
> > HDD's), and with Seagate SCSI HDD's.  Not sure how Seagate's IDE/SATA
> > drives are.
> >
> >
> > -M
> >
> Just found a Seagate IDE/SATA dying three weeks ago, in a new box built in
> May.
> 
> Ditto IBM comment.

I also recommend going for the best warranty you can find.  There aren't
any perfect drive brands.  Everyone has problems.  I've had IBM 75 and
120 drives that have run for 2 years now.  I also had an IBM 30 and a 60
that died in less than a year.

I bought two 15k.3 Seagate Cheetah drives last year and one of them died
in the first week.  The replacement has been happily running 24x7 with
its friend since then.

If you do regular backups and get a drive with a good warranty, then if
a drive dies (and they will all die, eventually) you have no worries,
especially if you can limp along without it until the replacement
arrives.
-- 
Zan Lynx <zlynx at acm.org>
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