On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 07:53:36 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > I just had my second Western Digital Special Edition 200 GB drive die on > me. Since I'm using an ASUS Pundit, I figured heat was the culprit, so > the second drive had a dual-fan cooler on it. No such luck. After about > three months of use, performance suddenly degrades, and the journals > begin to corrupt. A few days later, I/O errors crop up, and the drive is > pretty much useless. >
I have 12x80GB Seagate Cudda IV's in an array running 24x7 for the last 2.5 years + 2x120GB Cudda V's 18 months old. One 120GB has failed, although I believe my flatmate dropped the PC during a move, and it didn't boot again after this. They are quiet, not the fastest, but I won't buy anything else for myself. At work have various arrays with 16x300GB PATA Maxtors (with one failure in 16 months) and I just received another array with 14x250GB SATA Maxtors in it. Also one 12x300GB WD (with 8MB cache, 3 year warrenty) no failures yet that gets the s**t kicked out of it every day running for one year. I have had a lot of problems with the glass platter IBM's from two years ago .... 60GXPs from mem .... won't touch IBM anymore. Plus Seagate have same 5 year warrenty on all of their drives now ... they have my vote. All of the new Dells we buy seem to have WD drives, two failures in 8 months for 20 PC's ... not so great (Touching a lot of wood!!!!) HTH's Steve -- Steven Christall [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
