RE: Which SATA Drives?

["Phil Harris" <phil@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

To be quite honest you'll be fine with *ANY* drives ... the 24x7 rated
units
are more rated as 24x7 for data access (i.e. hammered all the time) whereas
in a domestic situation that is unlikely to happen.

I usually leave mine spinning all the time and some of the 160Gb drives I
have here (well, *ALL* of the 160Gb drives I have here) are over 5 years
old. Some of them came to me from a data centre where they had been run
hard
and permanently accessed for a year and they're only the old Maxtor 540DX
and the only one of those to have failed was one which I tried plugging in
whilst the enclosure was powered and got the power connector wrongly
aligned!

Phil

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf
> Of Ben McCormack
> Sent: 23 September 2007 08:20
> To: Home Automation Home Automation List
> Subject: [ukha_d] Which SATA Drives?
>
> All
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> Following on from Phil's example I now have my mac mini all setup as
> a server but I need some additional external drives for storage.
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> I have decided on one of the 4 drive Sata to Firewire cases from Span.
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> Initially I only need 2 Drives (will be RAID 1), I am looking at
> around 320Gb drives and they will be running 24*7.
>
> So does anyone have recommendations on good drives to buy?
>
> I can see the Seagate Barracuda ES drives are passed for 24*7
> operations and have a 5 year warranty.
>
> Any thoughts and advice much appreciated
>
> Regards
> Ben
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