Re: [PLUG] Considering a new hard drive?

2016-03-09 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Wed, 9 Mar 2016 09:06:19 -0800 Pete Lancashire dijo: >how things change A decade ago if one cared, you bought Seagate, not >they are near the bottom of the list. In the past four or five years I have had several Seagate drives fail, usually within the warranty, but

Re: [PLUG] Considering a new hard drive?

2016-03-09 Thread Pete Lancashire
how things change A decade ago if one cared, you bought Seagate, not they are near the bottom of the list. On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 7:47 AM, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Wed, 9 Mar 2016, Patrick J. Timlick wrote: > > > FWIW: I've had 0 hard drive failures since I

Re: [PLUG] Considering a new hard drive?

2016-03-09 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 9 Mar 2016, Patrick J. Timlick wrote: > FWIW: I've had 0 hard drive failures since I standardized on Western > Digital drives about 15 years ago. Adding to the recommendations for Western Digital drives, over a couple of decades I had one WD drive fail and the company quickly sent a

Re: [PLUG] Considering a new hard drive?

2016-03-09 Thread Patrick J. Timlick
FWIW: I've had 0 hard drive failures since I standardized on Western Digital drives about 15 years ago. On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 5:15 AM, Michael Rasmussen wrote: > On Wed, Mar 09, 2016 at 03:23:48AM +, Nathan Williams wrote: > > Neat, love these kinds of articles. Have

Re: [PLUG] Considering a new hard drive?

2016-03-09 Thread Michael Rasmussen
On Wed, Mar 09, 2016 at 03:23:48AM +, Nathan Williams wrote: > Neat, love these kinds of articles. Have you read any of the Backblaze hard > drive studies? Really interesting HDD reliability data from a massive > dataset. Also very good reading. I had not. Thank you. Even if I do wish I'd