Exactly... buy something solid, not a low grade line, make sure it has a good warranty... brand? HA... I've had drives from every major manufacturer break and some still alive LONG after warranties are expired. What makes the difference? Being smart about *backing up your data* and not buying cheap... like if Belkin made harddrives... maybe I wouldn't buy those... but WD, Maxtor, Seagate, all those guy's top lines... just buy for price (and compare stats such as length of warranty and X MB of buffer, etc.) I don't think you can really go wrong.
have fun, David McD On 9/19/05, Joel Ebel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You will likely start a significant argument over different people's > experiences with different brands of drives, and everyone's experiences > will vary wildly. The truth is that with any new drive you purchase, > especially large ones, it hasn't been around long enough to have good > reliability data. If performance is what you are interested in, then > consider the Maxtor Maxline III. It comes in a 300 GB version, and has > a 16 MB buffer. It comes in SATA and PATA interfaces, so make sure you > get the right one. It also comes with a 5 year warranty, something many > people will cite as a benefit of the Seagate drives, but for this line > of Maxtors you get it too. I've been using a Maxline Plus II for a > while now and it has performed quite well and without errors. But as > for any critical data, you should consider RAID and backups crucial. > > Joel > > Andrew Perrin wrote: > > Any preferences out there for large-capacity ATA (not SCSI or SATA for > > this application) hard drives? I'd love to go near 300GB if possible but > > can do with less if necessary. > > > > Thanks- > > Andy > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin > > Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] * andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu > > > -- > TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ > TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ > TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc > -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
