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[Xenon]

.... but their customer service isn't too bad. After having two drives go bad in a four month period, I was able to talk them into sending me a 160GB 8mb drive as a replacement.

I just hope I have better luck with this model. The other two drives just died without warning so I had no chance of recovering my data. I think I'm going to stick with Seagate and Maxtor from now on.

 

[aaaaa0]

I had two Maxtor 80 gigs go bad, and three Maxtor 200 gigs go bad over the last few years... (they didn't go bad all at once, just one at a time).

Luckily the 80s were in a RAID1 mirror, and the 200 gigs were in a 1TB RAID5 stripe set.

I also had two Hitachi/IBM Deathstars go as well (at the same time!!). Luckily I had them in a RAID 1+0 with 2 other drives.

Just yank the old dead drive, plug in the new drive, tell the RAID controller to rebuild, and you're good to go.

RAID rules.

 

[pestul]

PCI clock locked at 33MHz?

My main Maxtor is going to die eventually.. but that's only because it's from a shitty batch. I'm currently running it into the ground because I don't need another added expense. :X

 

[Mugen]

Hmmm... my 120GB WD HD is great. It's been almost at it's fullest since I bought it last December and haven't defrag it even once ever and it's still going.

 

[Shogmaster]

.... but their customer service isn't too bad. After having two drives go bad in a four month period, I was able to talk them into sending me a 160GB 8mb drive as a replacement.

I just hope I have better luck with this model. The other two drives just died without warning so I had no chance of recovering my data. I think I'm going to stick with Seagate and Maxtor from now on.

Dude WD 8MB drives are the bomb, as long as you give them adequate cooling. Otherwise you'll cook them pretty quick (especially if you run them 24/7 in a poorly ventilated mATX case as a server, like this guy I know).

 

[Xenon]

as long as you give them adequate cooling.

My case has 2 rear exhaust and one side fan. I think I'm going to pick up another fan for the front. I didn't really use the machine that much when the drive died. Just basic web browsing and the usual stuff. It was the only drive in the machine so it was well ventilated. This was a retail box drive running at its spec. I shouldn't have to provide additional cooling.

RAID rules.

Yeah as soon as the 10000rpm SATA drives get cheaper I'll get a couple and setup mirroring. Right now I need to get some good backup software for automatically backing up data to another machine on the network. If I loose anymore pictures my wife is going to kill me.

 

[DaCocoBrova]

I'm Pro-Seagate now. They're beyond quiet and cool. Plus, WD don't fit in PS2s, which sucks.