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- <li><em>date</em>: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 15:55:57 -0400</li>
- <li><em>from</em>: hscast at charter.net (Scott Castaline)</li>
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>Scott,
>
>This somewhat mirrors my experience with hard drives. I started using quite a
>few Maxtor's about 10 years ago and was pleased with performance and
>durability [and price]. Recently I'm having drives going down a lot, of all
>flavors, and have found any tape drive I can afford expensive, cumbersome and
>unreliable too.
>
>So, on my net am running several Linux flavors from CD at the moment, though
>not happily.
>
>I also have an old RedHat server that is hardware raided but don't run it
>much.
>
>So, I'm looking for a couple of sizable, at least a couple hundred MBs, hard
>drives that I can reliably [and affordably] raid, somehow. I've read that
>[IIRC] Escalade raid cards are good. But I have no objection to software raid
>in that reliability and avoiding data loss are what I'm after, with
>performance last, at least in this instance.
>
>Your thoughts appreciated,
>
>Courtney
>
>
>On Tuesday 25 October 2005 09:53, Scott Castaline wrote:
>
>
>>tejus at vijedi.net wrote:
>>
>>
>>>I've never had a hard-drive fail (knocks on wood) but for a desktop
>>>system, I'd take seagate over everything else. The reason? Noise.
>>>
>>>The seagate's are barely audible when idling and just a soft tapping when
>>>active. My maxtor's sound like a high-speed notebook fan while idling and
>>>like somebody using one of those old IBM "clicky" keyboards when it's
>>>actually doing work.
>>>
>>>The few WD drives I have are in noisy and/or out of the way places, so I
>>>don't know how they compare.
>>>
>>>
>>>Tejus
>>>
>>>Courtney Thomas 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 ?
>>>>
>>>>Appreciatively,
>>>>
>>>>Courtney
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>>I tend to stay away from Maxtor eversince they had bought out
>>Miniscribe. Their lowend stuff is really Miniscribe while the highend
>>stuff is Maxtor (SCSI UW320 etc). Having worked for Seatrash, excuse me,
>>Seagate may years ago at the start of the offshore manufacturing crase (
>>we called it the Singapore Sling ), at one of their repair depot centers
>>in Delray Beach, Fl. I had seen supposed new drives made in Singapore
>>that did not have disks in them, some were missing heads, some the bands
>>for the head to stepper motor connection, and some were just shells with
>>no guts. This was also at the time of the Seagate aquisition of Imprimus
>>a division CDC who made HDs for mainframes and up. Imprimus was pretty
>>much left alone and their drives became the highend lines for Seagate.
>>So to make a long story short or a short story long, I tend to stick
>>with WD and Quantum, although they have been gobbled up by Maxtor,
>>so.....................
>>
>>Scott Castaline
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I too use software RAID a lot on my home systems. On my SuSe box I have
2 9GB Quantums UW160 SCSI and 2 36GB Quantums UW160 SCSI that are set up
with RAID 1 mirrored. My other box has all WD drives in it running
Linspire/Ubuntu also RAID 1. My wife's box has a Samsung and a WD
running M$ Windoze 2K without RAID, since that costs. Back in my days of
employment, in most situations I dealt with hardware RAID solutions and
usually used Adaptec Adapters with very little trouble.
Scott Castaline
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