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By RAID here I assume you mean a duplicating setup, but maybe not.

What hardware/software setup do you think optimal ?

Thanks,
Courtney

On Tuesday 25 October 2005 13:40, Joe Knapka wrote:
> Courtney Thomas <cc.thomas at earthlink.net> writes:
> > I need a new IDE drive and apparently Seagate, Western Digital and
> > Maxtor have it to themselves, though I'm receptive if others are more
> > for less.
> >
> > Is there any significant difference among them that I should be aware
> > of, or just get the biggest I can find for the least cost ?
>
> I'll go out of my way to get Seagate drives.  I used to buy WD because
> they're cheap, but, y'know, they're cheap. I've had *lots* of WD
> drives fail.  And I've had trouble getting Maxtor drives to play nice
> with other manufacturers' drives on the same IDE bus.
>
> So I'd say, "Get the biggest Seagate drive you can afford".  Ideally,
> get two and RAID 'em.
>
> Cheers,
>
> -- J Knapka
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