Someone just shared this with me and I thought this might be relevant: http://techreport.com/discussions.x/15863 If it's a home server, a little hassle might not be the end of the world. Personally I always try to buy the largest available drives for mass storage, so I can go longer between upgrades, move my data around less, and have fewer oldies sitting around. I also wanted the 5yr warranty. So that's lately meant Seagate. If it needs to be no fuss, make sure your seller will take them back for a refund if they lock up like this. On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 08:19, Ryan Wagoner <rswagoner@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I used to buy Seagate drives for their 5 year warranty. However with > the capacities increasing like they are the 5 vs 3 years doesn't > really matter as much. Out of the 4 Seagate drives (2 160GB and 2 > 320GB) in my server that are 2.5 years old, the one is already showing > 13 reallocated sectors. This might be due to non Barracuda drives > being certified for only 8 hours a day. > > Recently I added have 5 Hitachi Deskstar TB drives in two different > machines which have been working great with mdadm in RAID 1 and 5. I > actually bought these after using 6 Hitachi Ultrastar TB drives in my > work's new Dell 2950 server. The server is setup in a 2 drive RAID 1 > and a 4 drive RAID 5 for data archival and has worked flawlessly. > > The Hitachi's are in the same price range as the Seagate Barracuda's > and offer 24/7 runtime and a 1 in 10^15 error rate vs 10^14 for > Seagate. > > Any reason you are using RAID 0 for your server? Normally when I think > of a server reliability comes to mind and RAID 0 doesn't offer any. > I'm assumming you make nightly or weekly backups? > > Ryan > > On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 8:12 AM, Henry, Andrew <andrew.henry@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > -- > 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 > -- 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
