[Gllug] Current advice for HD purchase ...

[Alain Williams]

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.

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

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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