ezkcdude Wrote: > I use Seagate. Definitely do not go with Western Digital, if you value > your music collection.
Too much of a generalization. The Raptor series from WD is both blazing-fast and quite solidly reliable; but their smallish maximum size makes them a suboptimal choice for the big-ass music archive. Brands go through their seasons of good and bad reliability, and lines and models within the brands can of vary. Back in the day, Seagate used to be pretty much the worst of the lot, especially compared to the brilliant efforts from CDC (Control Data Corporation). Then, a couple of years after Seagate bought CDC and incorporated their designers into the Seagate fold, the Barracuda line appeared and has been a performance and reliability high point ever since. Coincidence? Actually, despite this mild devil's-advocate stance, I have to agree that right now, if I weren't planning to try to do a lot of research into an individual drive model and just had to make a guess based on brand, I'd most likely plump for Seagate. In fact, it's Seagate disks I chose to populate my bare ReadyNAS NV with: a set of the ST3500641NS, from Seagate's "Nearline" series, which (at least as of when I made the purchase) seemed to be the preferred disk of some of the Infrant gurus for performance and expected reliabity if one were willing to pay the slight premium over Seagate's regular desktop line. There's of course a rub in that phrase "expected reliability" -- by the time really good real-world historical reliability statistics are out for a model, it'll have been discontinued and its size will seem hopelessly tiny by the new standards of the day. So you end up having to make a decision based on the manufacturer's statistical predictions, filtered through your sense of the maker's competence and integrity, with a sprinkling of intuition thrown in. -- jbm0 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ jbm0's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3949 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24616 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
