On Friday 23 December 2005 20:05, John Andersen wrote: > On 12/23/05, Dewey Smolka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > All things considered I'd probably go first for WD or Seagate, second > > for Maxtor. I can't recommend Samsung. > > Well, nowdays (or very soon) Maxtor will BE Seagate... > > I've also had really good luck with the Ex-IBM Hitachi > drives even tho there was a period where many people > reported problems with them. I've never had one > fail and I use them in production servers a lot. > > The first WD I put in this MythBox of mine was bad > out of the box, and Its replacement has been > solid.
bathtub curve, its normal, its why I always stress test all new harddrives I have before "relying" on them. My friend just bought two ~200gig seagate drives for a raid 1 array in his new computer. One died early, the other going strong. I've had excellent luck with WD's so far, running 5 in various systems. no infant death syndromes luckily, and they've all been running great. Great price t'boot. I have a few older Maxtor's, one IDS'd got it RMA'd and the new one is solid, the other two have been great. Granted, one is a 18GB SCSI U160 Atlas 10K-III....(man I love that drive). I've got no Seagate IDE's but I have a 70G SCSI seagate thats ~5yo thats been great, I do all my video editing off of it, and I'm getting it a sister off my friend, might have to raid them... > If At all possible I like to have two drives, one > for the OS, and one for Myth and the database. > That way you can reformat with less hassle. I have similar, one for the OS and db, one for Myth recordings, 4 or 5 or however many I have now for archived/downloaded recordings. Use partitions for each important directory and make your life easy when doing upgrades/etc. -- steve _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
