[Gllug] Current advice for HD purchase ...

[Ben Whyte]

I dont know whether it was a special deal, but I got two 1tb western 
digital green drives for 69 each plus vat from ebuyer I think.

I am running raid 1 with LVM.

Ben

On 01/03/2009 12:12, Alain Williams wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 11:59:53AM +0000, Dylan wrote:
>> On Sunday 01 March 2009, Alain Williams wrote:
>
>>> 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.
>
> Picking my local supplier ...
> 160GB ExcelStor -- #30
> 250GB ExcelStor -- #33
> 320GB Hitachi   -- #41.60
> 500GB Hitachi   -- #50
> 750GB Hitachi   -- #54
> 1TB   Hitachi   -- #90
>
> So: you definitely get more bytes/pound as you go up, the sweet point seems
> to be 750GB.
>
> Picked in that order because that is how they appear on the page:
>
> 	http://www.rlsupplies.co.uk/rlstore/Product_Catalogue_3_5__SATA_II_70.html
>
> When getting disks to mirror -- buy 2 different manufacturers, less likely to have both
> fail in the same fortnight.
>

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