On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 10:43:55AM -0800, dylan wrote: > hi -- > > I am currently looking for new ( < 20GB ) IDE drive for a small scale linux > server that we are setting up. realistically, we don't event need 5Gb of > space, however it would be nice to have a little breathing room for future > expansion. > > I have heard numerous *not so great* things about a lot of the new high > density drives (> 40Gb) such as a 1 yr warranty, and tendency to die > unexpectedly. > > any input would be greatly appreciated. I had lots of problems with the IBM Deskstar line of drives. I think I went through a half dozen in a year (two drives, each replaced twice).
I bought a RAID controller, set up 4 80GB Seagate drives in a redundant array, and waited for something to fail so I could be smug about the redundancy. Well, I haven't had a single problem with any of the four drives in the last two years. Also, among my friends' drives, I haven't seen a huge failure rate in any particular line of drives save the Deskstars. Things occasionally croak, but it's no worse than it was a few years ago. HTH. -- Samuel Merritt OpenPGP key is at http://meat.andcheese.org/~spam/spam_at_andcheese_dot_org.asc Information about PGP can be found at http://www.mindspring.com/~aegreene/pgp/
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