[TriLUG] Hard drive advice

[David McDowell]

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 <jbebel at ncsu.edu> 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
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> >
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