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Each manufacturer seems to oscillate between building a very good drive and then finding out how far they can cut corners before inadvertently releasing a disas
by noonespecial 16y ago
Each manufacturer seems to oscillate between building a very good drive and then finding out how far they can cut corners before inadvertently releasing a disastrous production run with huge quality issues. Seagate is the most recent to bottom out with their 1-1.5 TB drives.
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/seagate-7200.11-failing,6844.html http://www.tomshardware.com/news/seagate-7200.11-failing,684...
My advice, check Toms Hardware. They're usually on top of things.
A trick I've learned is to follow the big name server manufacturers. If IBM puts a certain hitatchi model in eseries servers, its a good bet that this is a decent drive. The downside is that these drives are going to be far behind the curve as far as the latest-biggest capacity goes.
Never buy the latest, just released supercapacity drive at Best Buy. This is how they work out the problems before selling them into the "serious" markets.
- madmaze 16y agoThanks for the pointers, Ive been looking into WD raptor drives, I dont really need much space. Itll only be my root&home partition so a 150-300gb drive will do. Even though i havnt had the best experiences with Seagate, i was also looking at the Constellation ES drives, which seem to promise high reliability, but after consulting newegg reviews i decided otherwise.