[TriLUG] Hardware: Most reliable IDE HD brand?

[B. Evans]

Ed Hill wrote:

>On Sun, 2002-12-01 at 16:35, B. Evans wrote:
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>>It used to be that IBM drives were widely regarded as the most reliable 
>>consumer IDE hd's you could buy.  I haven't paid too much attention to 
>>this area lately but would like an idea of who makes the most reliable 
>>IDE hd.
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>Be warned: IDE drives have become a commodity with razor-thin margins
>and, probably as a result, all manufacturers are currently switching to
>1-yr instead of 3-yr warranties.
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>I've had excellent luck with IBM drives but they're in the process of
>exiting the IDE HD business (selling that division).  I hear that the
>current Maxtor and Western Digital drives are good but due to past
>experiences with WD (mid-90's) I'll never knowingly buy another of
>theirs.  And Fujitsu had a bad production run in the last year--see past
>issues of the Inquirer (http://www.theinquirer.net/) for details.
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>Ed
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Doesn't sound like a very good situation these days.  I ask because I 
want to setup a cheap RAID 0 file server.   I really need only about 4gb 
so size isn't an issue.  Would a SCSI RAID0 system be any more reliable 
for near the same cost?

Thanks again,
bp