Ashley Reynolds wrote: >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] > > >Interesting > Interesting indeed. I haven't bought a Seagate since "lost interrupts" and install freezes with them back about 6.1 and 7.0 time. At the time, they were totally useless for any VIA chipset board with kernel 2.2. (ST38421A and a 10G Baracuda)
Experiences like that are what dictates lasting impressions, however erroneous they may be. With IBM in the toilet at present, and Quantum gone, I am looking for something I can use besides Maxtor, because I hate to place reliance on a single brand. WD is still totally out of the running and will continue to be until they learn to build quality in insttead of spend their money on customer relations for broken drives. (But if I wanted to teach employees how to take care of customers, I would arrange a Temporary duty at WD.-) Civileme >
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