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Consider that the vast majority of people buy and use those drives
without incident and never think to put a review saying so on any
one particular vendor site.<br>
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On 3/2/12 11:18 AM, Neal Rhodes wrote:
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I've gone ahead and ordered an HP core i3 system to be our next
Centos home/office server. <br>
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It's got a 1.5TB drive; normally on these off-lease units I'd buy
two brand new drives and mirror them. Or that's what we've done
with the last 3 linux servers. All of which are still
technically functioning since Fedora core 1. <br>
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This drive is likely about a year old, so I'm thinking I'll just
buy a new 1.5TB drive and install Centos to mirror the primary. <br>
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When I look at the crop of 1 - 1.5TB drives on TigerDirect and
read the reviews, they seem to be uniformly terrible - DOA,
failed after 3 weeks, replacement failed after a week, etc.
Seagate seems to be the worst, although WD not too far behind. <br>
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Ummm, isn't one of the primary selling features of a disk drive
that it's not supposed to blow up and take down all your data with
it? Has there been a massive quality slip in the last couple
years since I last bought drives? Seriously - I can lose a
power supply, a motherboard, a display - you name it, and once I
replace it I can expect to still have the data. Yes, I should
do backups, and I do, and yes, I should mirror the drives, and I
do. I should do SMARTD monitoring and I do. But isn't this
like selling tires that tend to shred randomly? Isn't not
blowing up catastrophically with no warning beforehand a basic
selling point for disk drives? What's the point of mirroring if
the odds are good that both drives will fail completely the same
week? What's the point of SMARTD monitoring if the darn drive
quits without warning? <br>
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Does anybody make a decent drive in that size range? <br>
<br>
I'm thinking that not even considering economy, my old theory of
buying a pair of new identical drives may not be wise anymore, and
sticking with one drive that has lasted over a year and one new
drive is a better plan. <br>
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Thoughts? <br>
<br>
Neal <br>
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