[lug] Hard Drive Manufacturer Suggestion

[D. Frye]

On Fri, Dec 03, 2004 at 04:07:54PM -0700, Frank Whiteley wrote:
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} Subject: Re: [lug] Hard Drive Manufacturer Suggestion
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} > 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.

>From what I heard while working with people that did a lot of testing on
the new SATA controllers, temperature is the biggest problem and tends
to cause premature failure. If you can control your heat, you might be
fine with SATA, otherwise I'd say stick with SCSI.

David

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