On Sun, 19 May 2002, 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.
Hi Sridhar, I'm surprised that no-one has recommended Seagate drives yet! They are what I use in _all_ of my machines, and all of my customer's machines. I have never had any problems with them, at all. Aside from that fact, they're dirt cheap at the moment. Well, in Australia at least. Ashley -- Ashley Reynolds [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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