[Gllug] Current advice for HD purchase ...

[Andy Millar]

On Sun, 2009-03-01 at 12:15 +0000, j.roberts wrote:
> Dylan wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Just at the moment be very careful with Seagate drives (7200.11 and
> BS), 500, 750, 1000. Oh, and Maxstor.
>
> We have had a batch with bad firmware which has been a complete PITA
> sorting out.
>
> They are reported to occasionally die on startup. Has not happened to
> us but neither am I prepared to risk it.
>
> MeJ
>
>

I recently picked up 16 of the 1.5TB Seagate drives (with the new
firmware that apparently isn't affected by the bug) and they seem ok.

The performance seems relatively good (400MB/s sequential read, 250MB/s
sequential write) as well when pumped through a 3ware 9650SE.

- Andy

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