[mdlug-discuss] disk monitoring hardware

[Kenneth C Coe Jr]

Mike wrote:
> allen wrote:
>   
>> Robert Adkins wrote:
>>     
>>>     Backup your data. Get a new HD ready to go.
>>>
>>>     Install the new HD and clone the one with the bad sectors. Put the
>>> bad sector disk out to pasture.
>>>
>>>     Rob
>>>       
>
>   
>> Any manufacturers you favor?
>>
>> The drive that's pooping out is an IBM Deskstar which I understand has
>> gotten the nickname "Deathstar".
>>
>> I'd rather not make the same mistake twice.
>>
>> Allen
>>     
>
> People are as varied as their preferred HD manufacturer of choice as they
> are their linux distro of choice.  People will also quote their given
> experiences with HDs failing, and someone else will be around to
> completely refute what they say.
>
> That being said, *I* will only buy Hitachi (replaced IBM), Western
> Digital, or Seagate (even though I've had past experience with some
> troubles working with Seagate support on getting SATA II drives firmware
> updated).
>
> The only manufacturer that I completely avoid is Maxtor, and probably for
> more of a historical reason, than the current products reliability, back
> in the day when I was doing a lot of building, Maxtor's crapped out all
> the time on me.
>
> I've had all kinds of HDs fail on me, Maxtor, WD, Seagate, IBM, etc.  And
> its pretty random, and I'm sure a lot of other factors come into play like
> case ventillation and such.
>
> Just check out the Hot Deals forum at Anandtech and see what HD deals roll
> through there, and get a good price.
>
> Mike
>
>
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well, said...

For my two cents, I will only buy WD and Seagate. I prefer WD, but 
seagate does offer the only five year warranty.