[Gllug] Current advice for HD purchase ...

[Dylan]

On Sunday 01 March 2009, Alain Williams wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 11:48:37AM +0000, Dylan wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > What's the current best options for new HDs? Are any manufacturers to be
> > avoided? I'm looking for up to 4 250 - 500G units for a new machine.
>
> You don't say what technology or how you will use them: IDE, SATA, SCSI --
> I assume SATA.

Ah indeed - SATA - and the machine will be used for general personal use.

>
> I would get 1 TB SATA disks and mirror them. Each such disk will set you
> back by about #90 (inc VAT).

Total machine budget is £250 ... so would be adding 2 now and 2 later.

Dx

>
> The Kernel MD works well and is simple to set up. Put LVM on top of that
> for divvying out usable partitions.
>
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