From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: maarten van den Berg Subject: Re: Hard drive Reliability? Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 01:53:21 +0200 Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <200405200153.21371.maarten@vbvb.nl> References: <200405192226.i4JMQLB16952@www.watkins-home.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <200405192226.i4JMQLB16952@www.watkins-home.com> Content-Disposition: inline To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids On Thursday 20 May 2004 00:26, Guy wrote: > >I would also concur. I had a Western Digital that failed after 10 > >months. Western Digital sent me another one that failed in exactly 10 > >months again. I didn't want to send it in to get yet another piece of > >WD junk. So, lesson learned to stay away form WD drives; correct or not. > > > >Sevatio > > ========================================================================== > > I had problems with Maxtor. So, lesson learned to stay away form Maxtor > drives; correct or not. > > My friend had problems with IBM. > > Who's left? I like Seagate, for now. > > A few years ago HP and EMC were using Seagate drives in their big disk > arrays. I am sure they have stats and know which drives are good. Hm, I somehow seriously doubt that, if and when you're talking about _brands_. However, I strongly feel that certain _series_ are indeed better or worse than others. But that only helps big manufacturers; by the time we need to buy a new drive the serie either doesn't exist anymore, is overhauled to reduce cost, or has been transfered from plant Y in Taiwan to plant X in China. (not that I imply anything by naming countries, they're examples) The tricky part, especially for manufacturers, is that they only know after the fact if they chose their drive brand / model wisely. Only after a year or so they can see how many returns they've had, and by that time it's too late to change anything about it. Maarten -- Yes of course I'm sure it's the red cable. I guarante[^%!/+)F#0c|'NO CARRIER