thanks, well i guess as long as i stay away from the deskstars things should be fine.
i think that i will look into the seagate drives. dylan on 03.10.5 1:28 PM, Samuel N. Merritt at [EMAIL PROTECTED] was reported to have writen: > 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. -- "The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it." -Albert Einstein _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
