Re: [ale] OT: Quality of current WD HDs?

[Michael Smith]

I think we all have had good and bad hard drives.  I think your 3 best are 
IBM, WD, and Maxtor.  This doesn't mean that you won't have problems but I 
think you will be OK with a WD.  I had problems 5 years ago with WD but I 
have heard from others that they work great.  I think a hard drives life 
has alot to do with it's surroundings.  Not too many hard drives will hold 
up in a 100 degree(fahrenheit) room with alot of dust...

If you decide to use a Maxtor drive, I have a process that you will need to 
perform to get it working in Redhat 7.2(if you are using a UDMA 100 
controller)

Just my 2 cents.  

> Hello,
> 
>    I'm looking at buying a Western Digital HD for a root drive
> on my home box. I'm looking at a simple 20 Gig WD200BB
> drive (7200 rpm, 2 MB cache). I've heard horror stories in
> the past, but I didn't know if there were any issues with
> current drives. If anyone has a better recommendation, I'm
> all ears (just ask my kids).
> 
> TIA,
> 
> Jeff
> 
> 
> 
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