On 7/3/06, Thomas Vecchione <seablaede@email-addr-hidden> wrote:
> > I haven't yet decided what HD to buy, I see good prices on 320G drives, but I'm tempted to stay with my usual plan and install two drives, maybe two 160G drives. I'm especially interested in finding out if there are particular brands to avoid, and of course I'd like to know the recommended brands.
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> For HDs there are two I would reccomend. The first being Seagate, and
> they probably have the upper hand at the moment with thier newer drives
> and the price per storage(750 GB for 450 dollars aint bad;)
> The other I would reccomend is Hitachi.
Just goes to show......the only two drives I've had bring-up problems
with in the last couple of years were a Hitachi I got from Fry's and a
bunch of low-end Seagate drives I got from New Egg. I do have some
80GB Seagates in each of the 3 MythTV frontend only machines here and
they are workign fine so far...
I'm currently running Maxtors and IBMs in my studio machines which
until recently were running very well. I am just now starting to have
trouble with an older Maxtor since upgrading to 2.6.17-rt1. This drive
is in an external 1394 case and holds my ripped CD collection. Just in
the last few weeks I've lost a number of songs. No big deal as I can
rerip them but the drive is ext3 and the journal
didn't/isn't/hasn't/won't do anything to fix the problems. The songs
are just messed up according to fsck. Bummer.
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> Those are the two brands I use in all of my machines on any regular
> basis. Once in a while I might get Maxtor or someone like that if I am
> just backing stuff onto it, pulling it out and not touching it again;)
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> Seablade
>
Strange how the picture can look so different to individuals. Glad
they worked well for you!
Cheers,
Mark
Received on Tue Jul 4 00:15:01 2006
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