Thought this might be of interest to the collective:
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/best-hard-drive/
best of new years,
Al
At 10:12 AM 25/01/2015, A L wrote:
Thought this might be of interest to the collective:
Interesting article. In my experience (and I work on 4-8 computers a
day), the most reliable are the WD Black series, followed by Hitachi,
and Seagate third.
Of course, many failures I see are due to
How long back do you see that trend Thane? I know Seagate has swung
wildly, repeatedly in out of favor for down right junk and poor
decisions over the past 25yrs+. Where I can't from-the-hip make a
similar statement of WD or HGST being as notorious for failures.
On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 6:40 AM,
Seagate has definitely been on the sh*t list for me for awhile.
On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 10:40:42AM -0400, Thane Sherrington wrote:
At 10:12 AM 25/01/2015, A L wrote:
Thought this might be of interest to the collective:
Interesting article. In my experience (and I work on 4-8 computers a
At 04:20 PM 25/01/2015, Bryan Seitz wrote:
Seagate has definitely been on the sh*t list for me for awhile.
One of my big complaints about Seagate is how inaccurate the SMART
attributes are - it's virtually impossible to tell when it's getting bad.
T
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Subject: [H] Best hard drive for the job
Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2006 20:50:20 -0700
I seem to remember a thread awhile back regarding the pros and cons of
using
SATA, SATA II, RAID0 with Raptors and 7200rpm drives
I seem to remember a thread awhile back regarding the pros and cons of using
SATA, SATA II, RAID0 with Raptors and 7200rpm drives in the best combination
to optimize performance.
I have two 36 GB Raptors in RAID0, 2 250 GB 7200rpm SATA II in RAID0 and a
single 400 GB IDE drive. The system
