[ale] difference among Seagate, WesternDigital & Maxtor ?

[Courtney Thomas]

Scott,

This somewhat mirrors my experience with hard drives. I started using quite a 
few Maxtor's about 10 years ago and was pleased with performance and 
durability [and price]. Recently I'm having drives going down a lot, of all 
flavors, and have found any tape drive I can afford expensive, cumbersome and 
unreliable too.

So, on my net am running several Linux flavors from CD at the moment, though 
not happily.

I also have an old RedHat server that is hardware raided but don't run it 
much.

So, I'm looking for a couple of sizable, at least a couple hundred MBs, hard 
drives that I can reliably [and affordably] raid, somehow. I've read that 
[IIRC] Escalade raid cards are good. But I have no objection to software raid 
in that reliability and avoiding data loss are what I'm after, with 
performance last, at least in this instance. 

Your thoughts appreciated,

Courtney


On Tuesday 25 October 2005 09:53, Scott Castaline wrote:
> tejus at vijedi.net wrote:
> >I've never had a hard-drive fail (knocks on wood) but for a desktop
> > system, I'd take seagate over everything else.  The reason? Noise.
> >
> >The seagate's are barely audible when idling and just a soft tapping when
> >active.  My maxtor's sound like a high-speed notebook fan while idling and
> >like somebody using one of those old IBM "clicky" keyboards when it's
> >actually doing work.
> >
> >The few WD drives I have are in noisy and/or out of the way places, so I
> >don't know how they compare.
> >
> >
> >Tejus
> >
> >Courtney Thomas writes:
> >>I need a new IDE drive and apparently Seagate, Western Digital and
> >>Maxtor have it to themselves, though I'm receptive if others are more
> >>for less.
> >>
> >>Is there any significant difference among them that I should be aware
> >>of, or just get the biggest I can find for the least cost ?
> >>
> >>Appreciatively,
> >>
> >>Courtney
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> I tend to stay away from Maxtor eversince they had bought out
> Miniscribe. Their lowend stuff is really Miniscribe while the highend
> stuff is Maxtor (SCSI UW320 etc). Having worked for Seatrash, excuse me,
> Seagate may years ago at the start of the offshore manufacturing crase (
> we called it the Singapore Sling ), at one of their repair depot centers
> in Delray Beach, Fl. I had seen supposed new drives made in Singapore
> that did not have disks in them, some were missing heads, some the bands
> for the head to stepper motor connection, and some were just shells with
> no guts. This was also at the time of the Seagate aquisition of Imprimus
> a division CDC who made HDs for mainframes and up. Imprimus was pretty
> much left alone and their drives became the highend lines for Seagate.
> So to make a long story short or a short story long, I tend to stick
> with WD and Quantum, although they have been gobbled up by Maxtor,
> so.....................
>
> Scott Castaline
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