I know there are very likely valid technical reasons against WD drives in linux, everything that I have heard about WD drives bothers me deeply.
On the other hand, if my Maxtor drive crashes tomorrow, that does not mean that Maxtor is a bad brand, absolutely not. We cannot infer anything about the reliability of the manufacturers from individual drives. Now, if we have large scale reliability data, then we can start talking ... [Actually, this list as a collective may be able to provide such a large scale dataset]. But this is why I encourage everybody to participate in the StorageReview drive reliability survey at http://www.storagereview.com/ Please stop by there and enter information your present and past drives. There is only one trick in this game: You can't view the results of the survey without first registering at StorageReview and then entering information on at least one hard drive. If you decide to register and enter data there, please don't bias the survey by only entering information about drives that have crashed on you or been DOA, enter instead information about all your drives. Right now, the readers of StorageReview have entered data about a total of 9059 drives. Narfi.
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