At 16:54 13/02/2003, David wrote:
yes.. but what about reliability? is there a difference? I need two new drives, but I much prefer reliability to size (I'm told that size isn't everything ;-) David
I've got two of those Seagate drives (60GB). They're a little slower than, say, the newest Western Digital's, but they're very quiet and seem to be quite reliable. I also put an 80GB one into a friend's system, and it also seems to quite reliable.
Of course, there's no way it compares to a SCSI drive. If you've got the money, it's always the way to go.
Software RAID1 (mirror) is also great, but, the likelihood of failure is a small amount higher than some would have you believe -- a pair of drives from the same batch are more likely to fail with the same problem, at the same time than two drives purchased independently. (moral: always keep backups)
Cheers,
Matt
P.S. WD is supposed to be releasing a 10,000rpm IDE drive sometime later this month.
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