IBM I just bought 4 more from : http://www.mwave.com
I currently have at least a dozen modern IBM HDs spinning 24x7 here. I've never had a problem with any of them. They're real fast with or without raid. hdparm reported >35MB/s throughput with Mandrake 8.2, 40 GB IBM 7200RPM, stock kernel and no hdparm settings. This was with a Tyan 2460 and dual Athlon MP1600+. I have had seagate, maxtor, and western digital drives fail. :-( Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: > 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. > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Kevin O'Connor "People will be free to devote themselves to activities that are fun ... The GNU Manifesto - Copyright (C) 1985, 1993 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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