[TriLUG] Hard drive advice

[Joel Ebel]

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
> 
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