hard drive woes

[mike neuliep]

Interesting, keeping in mind that SCSI drives are really IDE drives with a
different interface board on them, you'd think physical failure would be
about the same.  Perhaps it is the perception of IDE fail more often since
there are WAY more IDE drives in people's homes rather than SCSI drives.
As for me, I've had my best luck with fujitsu drives and probably had my
worst luck with western digital, followed closely by seagate.  But hey
this is only my personal experience.  As for anyone relying on a single
drive of any kind for data storage, that's just crazy.  I'd suggest a
3ware IDE controller (very linux friendly) for raid-1 configs with IDE
drives to protect your data from drive failure.

	Mike

On Wed, 20 Nov 2002 admin at kclinux.net wrote:

> > When I worked in a hardware shop, it seems like drives became
> > more and more unrecoverable as technology advanced.  I took that to
> > mean that they were reliable enough that they only failed if they were
> > really, really dead.
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> I couldnt agree with this any more.  I no longer "depend" on IDE drives for
> important data any more.  Seems when drives got larger than 10 gig, they
> seem to fail alot more often.  I have four Maxtor 6 gig IDE drives in one
> system, and I've never had a problem with them.  But for at least the past
> 2 years, I've had 10 to 80 gig drives go out from Maxtor, Western Digital,
> and Seagate. I havent tried IBM's desktop hard drives yet, but if they're
> as reliable as their laptop drives in Toshiba Tecras, no thanks.
> 
> I have yet to see one of my SCSI drives go out for the last 4 years.
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