I've been looking at the hard drive scene over the last few months in
preparation for purchasing a new system. I've got most of the hardware details
sorted out, but there is one area that I'm not quite settled on: hard drives. I
am basically looking for an affordable 80GB IDE drive that can deliver fast and
reliable (i.e. able to run 24x7) performance. I want to buy two of them so I can
make a RAID0 out of them.
Of course, they need to play well with Linux, and with any other 'alternate'
OS/kernel I throw at it. From what I have read, that rules out Western Digital.
Since I prize reliability, that would rule out IBM (IBM is offloading their hard
drive business to Hitachi, so that's another minus for them). So the way I see
it, only Seagate and Maxtor are still in the race. I checked out
storagereview.com and the Maxtor DiamondMax Plus D740X (AKA 'Viper') 80GB
appears to be neck-and-neck with the Seagate Barracuda ATA IV 80GB.
Any thoughts, people? Thx.
--
Sridhar Dhanapalan
The world's shortest poem:
"Me, Oui." -- Muhammad Ali
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