>> oic but beware of imitated and poor brand of ide which give you a
>> shorter
>> life expectancy. my favorite ide drive is seagate and for five years
>> now, it
>> is still up and running without a bad blocks. :->
>
> Well it just proves to show how different our experiences are with hard
> drives. I've had horror stories with Seagate IDEs [esp. medalist] so
> often that i shun the thought of even considering it for server use...
I've same experience as well. I've more or less come to trust Quantum
drives, whereas several others have told me of horror stories with
Quantum drives. Western Digital HDs are quite ok, as well, although
today I'm eyeing the IBM Deskstar 60GXP/75GXPs. :)
Longest drive I've had up and running without bad blacks yet is a
Quantum Maverick 540MB SCSI HD which has been running for roughly 6
years now.
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