[COLUG] Hard Drive Brands??

[Duane]

Austin Godber wrote:
> 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.

They weren't called deathstars for nothing ;)

After that IBM sold them out to Hitachi and things improved I believe.

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