[COLUG] Hard Drive Brands??

[Austin Godber]

I have personally been buying the WD RAID drives lately.  I haven't  
really had any in service long enough to make a real determination.  I  
think I have had one or two make it through a summer in my office  
where ambient room temp is 90F or higher.

At one of my recent jobs we had been buying Maxtors because they were  
cheap and we were good at replacing drives.  Our datacenter was hard  
on parts.

I imagine the deskstars have improved but in 2002ish I bought 30 and 8  
in that batch failed within 6 months.

Austin


On Mar 28, 2008, at 9:14 PM, Joshua Kramer wrote:
>
> Howdy Folks,
>
> Considering hard drives on which you'd install Linux: which have  
> proven to be most reliable?
>
> The grapevine rates drive reliability thusly:
>
> Seagate, new Hitachi DeskStars: Excellent
> Maxtor, Western Digital: Bad
>
> I'm looking for ~500GB SATA drive.
>
> There are Western Digital GreenPower Caviar for $105 at MicroCenter.  
> They have a 3 year warranty.  This is the first time I've seen 3 yr  
> warranty on WD models... and the GreenPower series are relatively  
> new. They claim a savings of 5 watts over the competition, which is  
> something I consider important.  But they seem to alter between  
> 5,400 and 7,200 RPM. I wonder if they're rated for 24x7 operation?
>
> Cheers,
> -j
>
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