Western Digital drives don't fully implement some of the error checking
protocols of the ATA specs so if you're using the md/RAID/LVM stuff there's
room for data corruption. Quantum/Maxtor have probably the best bang for
the buck if you don't want to pay for IBM or Seagate.
--Nathan
At 07:57 PM 24-02-01 +0000, Ray Kelly wrote:
>Wesley Darlington wrote:
> >
> >> And since this is the social list and I'm feeling kinda whimsical (*)
> > this morning, I wonder what how one might define and/or measure the
> > `suck time' of drives...? The mtbf? The amount of time before it
> > dawns on one that another model or, indeed, another make of drive
> > would have been a better choice? The amount of time before it fills
> > up? The amount of time before it becomes incredibly slow? (**) The
> > amount of time before one realises in the most horrible way possible
> > that a drive's awesome speed was due to it having write-caching turned
> > on...? :-)
>>How high it bounces after you've chucked it at the back of your next
>door neighbour's head ?
--Nathan
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