On Fri, 25 Apr 2008 12:22:51 -0700, Ken
<noreply@charter.net> wrote:

I now use Seagate internal SATAII drives because they all
come with 5-year warranties. The 1TB drive has a mfr stated
failure rate of 0.34% per year (34 out of 10k). They are
just over US $200 each, so pricing not much more (per gb)
when compared to a 750gb or two 500gb. Maxtor-branded drives
are still sold, but are labelled as such.

I am interested in recos for a reliable, quiet hdd in larger format
(50GB to 1 T) for storage of my film DVDs.

Once upon a time there was a website that did comparisons of various
qualities of hdd's including noise, speed, real-life read-writes, but I
cannot remember the name.

The other thing is the question of reliability. My assumption is that if
I can find a hdd with a warranty of more than 1 year, it is probably a
higher quality than one that only has one year. Is that a reasonable
assumption? The bottom line is that I want to stay away from any
drives/manufacturers that are dogs.

Thanks
Ken K

Ken <noreply@charter.net> wrote:

I like Samsung myself.

storagereview.com

The only drives with 1 year warrantys now are externals.

Nope, the same drives have a 1 year warranty when in an external housing now.

Then avoid Seagate because they have absorbed Maxtor and those were the biggest dogs,
and Seagate is the only one manufacturing in china and that shows in the reliability of the drives.

Rod Speed said the following on 4/25/2008 1:56 PM:

KK

Rod Speed wrote in news:67euroF25pitjU1@mid.individual.net
Nonsense, so is Hitachi. And they both manufacture elsewhere too.

Pathetic really.

Rod Speed said the following on 4/25/2008 1:56 PM:

Ken <noreply@charter.net> wrote:
I generally avoid them myself tho I did use them at one time.

Mainly because they had a silly jumpering scheme for a long time,
and were very late with fluid bearings, problems with use in external
housings and didnt really have too much in their favor.

Only the last of those is true now, and the RE2 is interesting, lower power than many drives.

Previously Ken <noreply@charter.net> wrote:

The 1TB GPs cause frequent command timeouts. I have one and will not
risk another.

Arno

Arno Wagner wrote:

Previously Ken <noreply@charter.net> wrote:
WD "GP" series. The command timeouts are in the system log
(under Linux, did not try it under Windows) and I have one
enclosure that completely disables the disk frequently, since
it cannot deal with these timeouts.

Arno

Arno Wagner wrote:

Good topi


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