On Sat, 2002-05-18 at 22:11, KevinO wrote: > IBM I heartily second this. I set up a web company on IBM's over three years ago, and they've been running 24/7 ever since. Last week the technical director told me it was one of the best things I ever did; he's sold on the hardware.
First time I've heard about the Hitachi thing, tho... > 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. :-( Again....same experience here. Not only me, but I think that site Walnut creek ended up ripping out a bunch of barracudas some years back; all brand new, because of the failures. I can't remember what they did, but it wasn't seagate. In any case, it's hard to beat IBM's MTBF. YMMV, of course; but my personal experience is the same as Kevin O'Connor's. LX > > 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. > > -- ��������������������������������������������������� Kernel 2.4.8-26mdk Mandrake Linux 8.1 Enlightenment 0.16.5 Evolution 1.02 Registered Linux User #268899 http://counter.li.org/ ���������������������������������������������������
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