With hard drives, you only care about noise, heat, and reliability. Only certain model of certain brand, namely old IBM glass disc drives, has higher than average failure rate. WD, Maxtor, Hitachi/IBM, and Seagate all have similar failure rate nowadays. If someone claims some brands are not good, that purely depend on their own experience. In that case, 1% means 100% for them.
I have used various model and currently I have 9 HD's over 200GB for storage. Overall, Seagate is quiet, but again, it depend on model. Newer model tend to be quiet. I have an old Maxtor 80G which is noisest one but latest Maxtor 250G is realy cool and quiet. WD 200G model which first appear in market 4 years ago is really noisy, but their new model is quiet too. I would strongly recommend: 1. Don't run HD for music 24/7. No HD would last forever, if you are not listening to music, find out way to turn off HD you are not using. In that way, HD's would last almost forever. 2. Use fan for cooling, don't use passive cooling solution. Heat is hard driver killer! -- Roy2001 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Roy2001's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5731 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
