[Gllug] recommendation for external hard drive

[Bernard Peek]

sean wrote:
>  there used to be a web site where an individual was collecting
>  failure statistics and providing vendor based graphs, but it was
>  threatened with legal action and discontinued the survey 3ish years
>  ago. i remember that the best vendor at that time was samsung, with
>  hitachi second, and none of the samsung drives i've been buying since
>  then have failed. i think maxtor were bottom, but i had more interest
>  in what was top, so i could be wrong. it would be useful to have real
>  current evidence. google do have that, but won't release it. they
>  would probably purchase the majority of their drives from whichever
>  vendor is is top of their list, so that might be a clue.

To me it seems self-evident that none of these studies are going to 
provide the data needed for a sensible comparison. For even the worst 
drives MTTF is substantially longer than the lifetime of the product. By 
the time you have collected sufficient evidence to make a judgement 
about a product it has been superseded and it's too late to take any 
action on the findings. I remember the IBM "Deathstar" range was off the 
market before there was much noise about the problem, and the production 
company was sold off.

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