Re: [TCLUG:22036] Re: Harddrives [Was: MoHappy Mobo]

[Kent Schumacher <kent@structural-wood.com>]

I've had the opportunity to buy a fair number of medium level consumer drives,
and I feel like most are good with some rare but absolutely horrible cases for
most of the manufacturers.   

The absolute best drive experience I had was with a Quantum drive 
which came with a five year warranty.  I picked it up on discount for 
$400.00.  I then used it as a primary drive on a data-base
server, and it was used hard for 4-1/2 years.  

It finally went belly up, (which caused no problems).  For kicks I called
up Quantum and told them it was dead - they told me they had nothing
comparable so they would cut me a check.  Turns out the check was for 
their list price, so I ended getting a little more than $500.00 back.

Pretty sweet,
Kent


Andy Zbikowski wrote:
> 
> > Do you know more about this VIA WD problem?  I have 3 Western Digital drives
> > and I just ordered an MSI board with a VIA chipset. Hopefully I wont see the
> > problem since my drives will use an add on Escalade 6400 ATA RAID controller,
> > and not use the onboard IDE controller.
> 
> Myself, I don't really trust WD drives. A few bad experiences in the past. I
> don't put much faith in Seagate drives either, but at least one of my
> Seagate drives has been good since I got it (and didn't fail every three
> mounths) Thankfully, dieman hasn't had any issues with the same drive in his
> machine, so it was probally my computer that was causing issues with the
> drive.
> 
> Haven't really had any issues with my Maxtor drive. We did have an issue
> with the maxtor drive we were going to put in destiny.ringworld.org, but it
> was a really fscking bad drive. A semi-quick RMA took care of it (and got us
> a slightly bigger drive to boot) and we haven't had any issues with the
> drive running 24/7 since.
> 
> I've had Zero issues with my IBM SCSI drives, nice fast and reliable. =)
> 
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