On Wed, 22 Jun 2005, Harry Mangalam wrote: > I personally buy IBM (now Hitachi I think) and Seagate and have always avoided > WD as being cheap and cheesy. 5 years ago when I was a sysadmin, I was > replacing WD at probably 5 times the rate of anything else. It was probably Everyone has their own personal HD brand horror stories. I've seen multiple IBM DeathStar drives suddenly self destruct. I've had multiple defective brand new Maxtor SATA drives and Maxtor send an RMA replacement (for a PATA) drive that after being stored for a few months turned out to be dead when I tried to put it in service. I try to base my drive purchases on warranty length now, on the assumption that if they don't want to stand behind their product (<3 year warranty), I don't want to rely on it either. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Jon Lewis | I route Senior Network Engineer | therefore you are Atlantic Net | _________ http://www.lewis.org/~jlewis/pgp for PGP public key_________ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
