Hard drives..

[rickm]

What are ya'll using for drives? I have (4) 80Gb WD8mb cache drives...3 year warranty...and I've had 2 fail in the last month. 1 failed mid March, the replacement just arrived (WD sent it via turtle). The other started to head south today. Thank God for 3 year warranties.

Jeff, I found a 386 if you want a new PC.

[Derek A.]

I have warrantied WD, IBM/Hitach and Maxtor. I have recently started using Seagate again. Will see how they hold up.

[DueyT]

I'm running 4 x 40GB Maxtor DiamondMax 2MB-cache drives in a Highpoint372 Raid 0/1 array. Bullet proof for 2 1/2 years running W2K Pro...

[632 Regal]

I have western drives, 20 main and 80 for crap & similar at work. had one problem in the last 4 years with a wd drive and the software repaired it.

[bahnstormer]

i've got a 10,000rpm WD Raptor drive
i also have a 6gb WD =]
not sure how u guys manage to kill these drives,
but the only drive that failed on me was a maxtor

are u keeping the drives cool?

[rickm]

Yup. I have enough fans in this case to allow it to hover off the ground if it wanted to, heating has never been an issue for me.

The drive I just received from RMA shit itself last night. I was playing a game when I received a popup telling me a file was corrupt. Bailed on the same, told the box to run chkdsk on all drives when it rebooted, it's hanging up. I guess I'll go back to IBM drives. WDC sends me a recert'd drive again and I'll see they're blackballed from this place.

35 minutes until a meeting that decides my future.

[bahnstormer]

good luck at the meeting!
heheh

ibm's are good, hitachi is ok, i like my WD, but don't get thier cheap caviars get the special editions. maxtor, like i said i've had poor experiences with.
you can try seagate too. i have a 2.5gb seagate from a number of years ago running
in my server =]

[tim s]

i have been selling them in workstations for my commercial business clients for 6 years. very good success rate. i replace a lot of seagate & maxtor ide drives. when it comes to ata or sata wd is my choose, but with scsi i use seagate with plenty of cooling. antec make some nice cases with efficiant cooling.
tim s.

[DueyT]

Here's the bad-boy. One day I'll have a few of these stuffed into a fibre-channel RAID-5 array so that stuff gets stored faster than I can think about storing it!