From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Molle Bestefich <molle.bestefich@gmail.com>
Cc: Christian Pernegger <pernegger@gmail.com>, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Ok to go ahead with this setup?
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2006 19:44:53 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <449B55A5.5030703@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <62b0912f0606221511p74a78ca5id4b5d3f870258815@mail.gmail.com>
Molle Bestefich wrote:
> Christian Pernegger wrote:
>> Anything specific wrong with the Maxtors?
>
> No. I've used Maxtor for a long time and I'm generally happy with them.
>
> They break now and then, but their online warranty system is great.
> I've also been treated kindly by their help desk - talked to a cute
> gal from Maxtor in Ireland over the phone just yesterday ;-).
>
> Then again, they've just been acquired by Seagate, or so, so things
> may change for the worse, who knows.
>
> I'd watch out regarding the Western Digital disks, apparently they
> have a bad habit of turning themselves off when used in RAID mode, for
> some reason:
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.device-mapper.devel/1980/
>
I have exactly the opposite experience. More than 50% of Maxtor drives
fail inside 18 months; WDs seem to be really solid.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-06-23 2:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-06-22 17:08 Ok to go ahead with this setup? Christian Pernegger
2006-06-22 18:04 ` Molle Bestefich
2006-06-22 18:38 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-06-22 19:50 ` Christian Pernegger
2006-06-22 22:11 ` Molle Bestefich
2006-06-23 2:44 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2006-06-23 3:27 ` Bill Davidsen
2006-06-23 6:45 ` Ricky Beam
2006-06-28 2:42 ` Mike Dresser
2006-06-28 6:23 ` bart
2006-06-28 6:45 ` Brad Campbell
2006-06-28 10:18 ` Justin Piszcz
2006-06-28 15:23 ` Mike Dresser
2006-06-28 7:25 ` Christian Pernegger
2006-06-28 7:58 ` bart
2006-06-28 8:19 ` Drive issues in RAID vs. not-RAID Gordon Henderson
2006-06-29 3:51 ` Neil Brown
2006-06-23 3:25 ` Ok to go ahead with this setup? Bill Davidsen
2006-06-28 12:02 ` Christian Pernegger
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