RE: 300GB Hard Drives

["Phil Harris" <phil@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> What to go for?
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> I just can't make up my mind, I want 9 (8 way raid+ cold=20
> swap), also got to be PATA. They are all within a quid or=20
> two. I wouldn't mention any IBM/Hitachi drives after the=20
> numerous deaths that some of you had a few years back.

But that was the old Deskstar drives when it was IBMs storage division -
those drives are no longer in production and now Hitachi have taken over
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quality seems fine.
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> I've checked StorageReview.com and can still not come to any clear
> decisions-
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> Seagate ST3300831A 7200rpm 8mb cache - tests well in some=20
> places, my preferred Maxtor 6L300R0 Diamondmax 10 7200rpm=20
> 16mb cache Maxtor 7L300R0 MaXLine III 7200rpm 8mb cache (=A310=20
> more than the others) Western Digital WD3000JB Caviar 7200rpm=20
> 8mb cache
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> I'm not interested in the 400's as the premium is too high.
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> What to do eh?

I like Maxtors myself - that's what I use most of here and I've not had any
fail (apart from one that I killed by plugging in the power when the PSU
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on and got the power connector misaligned) - but I know that some other
people wouldn't touch Maxtors with a barge pole...

Phil