[Gllug] recommendation for external hard drive

[Richard Jones]

On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 11:17:32PM +0100, general_email at technicalbloke.com wrote:
> I agree but when it comes to Maxtor there's no smoke without fire.
> Individually my experiences might not be very representative but
> whenever this subject comes up it turns out there's a lot of others
> who've noted the same thing about them. Also, somebody's got to be
> bottom of the pile, I'd say it's a good bet it's them.

I'll add some anecdata to this: Last time we tried to run our 24/7 web
server on Maxtor drives[1], they lasted all of 1 month before all the
drives in the array failed nearly simultaneously.  The WD replacements
have lasted going on for 4 years now.

Rich.

[1] Yes, yes, I know.

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