thanks, did not hear about WD getting Hitachi.
fp
At 09:54 AM 8/1/2011, Greg Sevart Poked the stick with:
If you're going to run them as standalone drives, I'd still go with WD.
If you're going to run them on a RAID controller (NOT software RAID, it
doesn't care), either go Hitachi or WD RAID Edition.
I've become a big Hitachi fan simply because their drives play well in RAID
- I have 6x 2TB 7K2000's, 6x 2TB 7K3000's, 5x 2TB 5K3000's all in various
RAID arrays.
WD still has the best return procedures in the industry, by far. Hitachi's
disk unit was purchased by WD a while back, but it remains to be seen what
level and how quickly that integration will occur.
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> Subject: [H] >1tb drives ?
>
> Thinking of bumping up my drives, have in the last few years always
> bought WD Black.
>
> Was wondering opinions on 2TB drives ? Years ago loved IBM ( now
> Hitachi) Been buying WD mostly because when needed RMA process is
> painless. Hitachi wanted u to send the drive back first ( may be
> different now) Seagate wanted money for advance replacement. ( again
> may be different now)
>
> My system has 4 drives. boot, stuff and two for cloned backups. Want
> to simplify and goto just 2 drives and partition the drives. I like
> to update my drives at least every two years just for grins and I
> usually up size for no apparent reason other then I can. 8-) A 1TB
> drive would really be plenty for me but I figure WTH.
>
> thanks
> fp
> PS: FWIW the system that would not create the swap file took a clean
> install to fix. Sometimes I am very stubborn.
>
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