Re: [PLUG] Dead, unrecoverable Hard drive?

[Paul <paul@dpagin.net>]

If you want to save your data buy another 80G drive and void the 
warrenty on both by swapping the control boards.

> fwiw, here is my ranking of harddrives where '1' is being the best:
>
> 1) Western Digital
> 2) Seagate
> 3) Maxtor
> 9000) Quantuum

This is from Linux Journal article 
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=4247:

> The money you spend on a killer SCSI card is wasted without fast 
> drives, so choose two or more 10,000RPM drives from IBM, Quantum or 
> Seagate. One good rule of thumb is to choose the same drives the 
> reputable Linux system vendors are putting in their servers.
>
> If you do decide to save money and go IDE, stick to one of the top 
> three drive vendors mentioned above. Earlier this year, kernel hacker 
> Andre Hedrick, the maintainer of Linux's IDE driver, tracked a user's 
> problem to the fact that Western Digital drives don't do error 
> checking correctly. He posted to linux-kernel, ``WDC drives blow off 
> the CRC check of UDMA.... This is BAD and STUPID.'' Western Digital 
> fired back on their web site with, ``If there's a problem using these 
> drives in Linux the problem most likely lies with the software driver 
> and not the hard drive itself.'' I'm going to believe the kernel 
> hacker over the hardware vendor, and stay away from Western Digital 
> drives.
I read something like this before and have stayed away from WD drives. 
I would also avoid Quantum drives.  I've been wanted to try IBM or 
Seagate drives, but the wife prefers Maxtor.  I would also consider 
Samsung drives.

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