[ILUG] Hardware queries

[Feargal Reilly]

On Wed, 14 Jul 2004 09:02:26 +0100
kevin <kevin at cybercolloids.net> wrote:
 
> 1. What manufacturer do people recommend for IDE drives? The
> drive that died was actually one of our newest drives and was a
> Maxtor, the other ones we have are Seagate and Fujitsu. The
> system is not complex, no raid or LVM, just a hard drive with a
> spare backed up by rsync hourly. 40GB would be plenty big
> enough and its not very heavily loaded.

I'll mirror Rafiq's comments here, in my experience I've seen a
number of Maxtor and Quantum disks die over the years, but
can't remember a Seagate falling over on me. We bought a new
server recently from Encom, and had a choice between
Seagate and Western Digital - I asked their opinion and they
recommended the (cheaper) Seagate drives. (They were also happy
to make sure the disks were from two different batches, nice
guys.)

Of course, having been alerted to this, the Great
SysAdmin in the Sky will probably smite both my new Seagate
drives today, just to keep a balance.

-fr.

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