> -----Original Message----- > From: DHSinclair > James, > You are so many yards ahead of me with hard drives. I have > lusted after some Raptors for years now.
They are nice, but expensive. The two 37GB drives only give me a total of 74GB and occupy two SATA sockets and cost over $230 in 2003. That said, they have not given me a problem in 4.5 years of service. > I am amazed and humbled. Nice choices. > That said, I have had almost flawless service from Seagate > drives in EIDE, SCSI-N,SCSI-W, and SCSI-U160), and, Hitachi > SC80-U160 drives (in my server's raid). SCSI is nice, but too expensive for my taste. I went SCSI for my first CDRW and ended up spending about $1000 for a Diamond FirePort SCSI card, a Yamaha 4x SCSI burner and Teac 16x SCSI Reader. At the time, SCSI was the way to go to prevent underbuffer problems. But it was a really expensive investment. I never got into the SCSI hard drives because they seemed so much more expensive than EIDE. Then the new SCSI varieties (fast, wide, etc) made my old adapter obsolete. In addition, Windows XP did not support the card and the company ceased production so had no reason to bring out updated drivers. Purchased a 48x EIDE CDRW in 2003 for about $40 that easily out-performed the old setup. > I know, really small list.... :) About all I can share ATM. > Please keep us posted....... > Best, > Duncan I have had a real rash of hard drive failures recently. Some were older models, 4 and 8.4 GB Maxtors and a 14.4 GB IBM Deskstar. More troubling, I have lost several 3-4 year old Maxtors, 120 and 160 GB models. I am worried the other IDE drives of that vintage have a limited lifetime remaining. I also have a couple of 20 and 30 GB Maxtors that I worry about. So far, not data loss. Jim [EMAIL PROTECTED]
