hmmm, why not just consider that crc checking is needed, and any drive that does not is cutting corners that the rest do not, then ask the manufacturer which drives support the error checking protocol. (hint WD does not consider it worth doing, I think everyone else does.
On Wednesday 02 October 2002 09:25 am, you wrote: > The samples are not large enough to draw a scientific conclusion but in > terms of incidence rates (events per drive per unit time) Maxtor seem to be > the lowest. > > It would be neat to gather enough samples to make a good scientific > judgement. > > Jim Tarvid > > On Wednesday 02 October 2002 08:43 am, J. Grant wrote: > > June-Jerry Kreps wrote: > > On Tuesday 01 October 2002 05:51 am, J. Grant wrote: > > > > Is there any infomation on drives/manufactors that work well with linux > > then? If WD are that bad I'm stuffed, i just bought a new drive from > > them. > > > > JG > > > > > > I have two WD drives, 30 GB each, and they work great. > > JLK > > > > luckily for me my WD drive was ranked 2nd in this review. Realy you need > > a huge test set to get consistent results though > > > > http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/article/1540/ > > > > JG
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