| gabriel rosenkoetter on Thu, 12 Sep 2002 19:50:08 +0200 |
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On Wed, Sep 11, 2002 at 10:55:57PM -0400, Time wrote: > 1) Western Digital > 2) Seagate > 3) Maxtor > 9000) Quantuum That's funny. My experience is diametrically opposite (never met a Western Digital I didn't end up throwing through a window, and this email was queued on and sent from an 8-year-old Quantum drive that has never, in its lifetime, shown any sign of trouble). But I only[1] buy SCSI. Drive quality varies *widely*, even within a "trusted" vendor name. Get a good warranty, at least six identically-sized, SCSI drives, and do RAID 5 with five of them and keep one as a cold spare. Or be aware that you *will* have loss-of-data failures of disk. (In the latter case... you own a tape drive, right?) [1] Well, except for /music. But that doesn't count, since its backup is, by definition, just shuffling my CD collection through my four SCSI CD-ROMs again, which I can do with concerted effort over a weekend. -- gabriel rosenkoetter gr@eclipsed.net Attachment:
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