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Re: [PLUG] firewire drive errors
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Allot of firewire enclosure chipsets have a 250gb drive size limit. a lot
also have buggy firmware.
2 months after expanding my myth lvm to 3 disks with a new maxtor drive It
died on me. wouldn't even spin up. After recovering most of the data on
the array after insterting a new disk. I took a break from it to only have
the main disk in the lvm go bad... So now i've bought WD drives and have
them configured in a raid 5. As the disks go bad I'm going to replace with
WD drives... Getting OEM disks on sales is pretty inexpensive nowdays.
$30 retail specials on maxtor 250's are nice but just not worth the effort
required to fix. I'm also using smartd to monitor my disks now. hopefully
I'll get a heads up before a drive goes down (which i've heard you will
ususally get smart errors before the disk will actually go belly up on you)
On Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 08:27:50AM -0400, Jason wrote:
> My experiences with Maxtor drives mirror those of Jon. I wouldn't
> touch a Maxtor drive with a 39 and a half foot pole.
>
> WD has mostly been good, though my drive of choice has been Seagate
> for some time now. Good quality, and best of all - most of their
> better drives have a 5 year warranty.
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