[COLUG] Hard Drive Brands??

[Angelo McComis]

I agree on Seagate and Hitachi.

And I believe, Seagate bought either WD or Maxtor (not sure which) but it only cost them $30 after they mailed in the rebate (LOL).

Although they're not in our market, I hear Fry's has really great deals on  stuff. I recently saw a 750gb Seagate for like $159. 

I know your question was towards reliability though...  And I will say I have had both a WD and a Maxtor fail on me prematurely. And I have not had a Seagate fail on me. In my datacenter, most of the bad drives I replace have a Maxtor label on them.


I doubt your Green drive will be of "datacenter grade" or duty rating. I would also be tentative about buying Rev. 1 of a new technology such as variable spindle speed. 

Forget the 5 watts and go for the reliability and performance. Instead, change one or more of your incandescant lights to a CFL, which is typically a 60watt bulb for the energy of ~15watts... I'm not against being green, but be smart about it. Not everything is "better" because it claims to be "green." 

But that's just my opinion. 

-Angelo



-----Original Message-----
From: Joshua Kramer <josh at globalherald.net>

Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2008 00:14:07 
To:colug432 at colug.net
Subject: [COLUG] Hard Drive Brands??



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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