[lug] Hard Drive Manufacturer Suggestion
Jeffrey Siegal
jbs at quiotix.com
Fri Dec 3 15:28:57 MST 2004
Daniel Webb wrote:
> I know of cases where certain models have been really bad with Seagate,
> Maxtor, and IBM. I had one of those 40Gig Maxtors die on me, and I knew a lab
> tech who had half of 30 Seagates die in a few months. Probably all low-end
> manufacturers have this happen sometimes.
In general it seems the quality and reliability of IDE drives has
declined a *lot* in recent years. On the other hand, the capacity and
cost have both improved a lot. Putting those two together, I'm using
software RAID5 (if I need more than one drive of capacity) or RAID1 (if
I don't) on all of my new systems.
I really like the idea of replacing a drive being a simple matter of
raplacing a failed part without having to deal with recovery and
possible data loss.
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