RE: 300GB Hard Drives

["Ho yin Ng" <yahoogroups@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I wouldn't touch Maxtor with a barge pole.

I have had over 5 Maxtor failures over the past years.

Seagate on the other hand have had zero failures and I have about 5 of them
on 24/7.

I recently changed to some Western Digital due to some people suggesting
that they were quieter at Storagereview.com.

To be honest I have found the Seagates quieter.

Seagate gets my vote - then comes Western Digital.

Ho yin

-----Original Message-----
From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Jim Andrews
Sent: 24 March 2006 20:59
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] 300GB Hard Drives

Seagate has always been my favourite, never had any problems.

Currently have 80G in mine and the wife's machines, and run a pair of
ST3300831A's on a Linksys slug as PC backup NAS.

Personal experiences, but I've had Maxtor failures and a friend of mine had
a
real nightmare with some last year. Others have good experiences!



Jim

-----Original Message-----
From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx]On Behalf Of
brougham Baker
Sent: 24 March 2006 20:34
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: [ukha_d] 300GB Hard Drives


What to go for?

I just can't make up my mind, I want 9 (8 way raid+ cold swap), also got to
be PATA. They are all within a quid or two. I wouldn't mention any
IBM/Hitachi drives after the numerous deaths that some of you had a few
years back.

I've checked StorageReview.com and can still not come to any clear
decisions-

Seagate ST3300831A 7200rpm 8mb cache - tests well in some places, my
preferred
Maxtor 6L300R0 Diamondmax 10 7200rpm 16mb cache
Maxtor 7L300R0 MaXLine III 7200rpm 8mb cache (=A310 more than the others)
Western Digital WD3000JB Caviar 7200rpm 8mb cache

I'm not interested in the 400's as the premium is too high.

What to do eh?

Bro