<p>Every seagate or maxtor drive I have owned has failed on me, the maxtors where never hard fails. I do shy away from the 1.5tb drives from all the problems they had in there early days. I had 2 of the 1.5tb seagates for my drobo before the 2tb drives where out, they both died on me and I moved to wd greens for it and never had a problem. The 40tb san in my house uses the samsung spinpoint drives, I don't trust them as far as I can through them but they are setup to take some hits.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Mar 2, 2012 11:52 AM, "Geoffrey Myers" <<a href="mailto:lists@serioustechnology.com">lists@serioustechnology.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Geoffrey Myers wrote:<br>
> Jeff Hubbs wrote:<br>
>> Consider that the vast majority of people buy and use those drives<br>
>> without incident and never think to put a review saying so on any one<br>
>> particular vendor site.<br>
><br>
> My thinking as well. People don't post about things that don't work.<br>
<br>
People don't ost about things that DO work.<br>
Jeese, and I've already had my coffee this morning.<br>
<br>
><br>
>> On 3/2/12 11:18 AM, Neal Rhodes wrote:<br>
>>> I've gone ahead and ordered an HP core i3 system to be our next Centos<br>
>>> home/office server.<br>
>>><br>
>>> It's got a 1.5TB drive; normally on these off-lease units I'd buy two<br>
>>> brand new drives and mirror them. Or that's what we've done with the<br>
>>> last 3 linux servers. All of which are still technically<br>
>>> functioning since Fedora core 1.<br>
>>><br>
>>> This drive is likely about a year old, so I'm thinking I'll just buy a<br>
>>> new 1.5TB drive and install Centos to mirror the primary.<br>
>>><br>
>>> When I look at the crop of 1 - 1.5TB drives on TigerDirect and read<br>
>>> the reviews, they seem to be uniformly terrible - DOA, failed after 3<br>
>>> weeks, replacement failed after a week, etc. Seagate seems to be the<br>
>>> worst, although WD not too far behind.<br>
>>><br>
>>> Ummm, isn't one of the primary selling features of a disk drive that<br>
>>> it's not supposed to blow up and take down all your data with it?<br>
>>> Has there been a massive quality slip in the last couple years since I<br>
>>> last bought drives? Seriously - I can lose a power supply, a<br>
>>> motherboard, a display - you name it, and once I replace it I can<br>
>>> expect to still have the data. Yes, I should do backups, and I do,<br>
>>> and yes, I should mirror the drives, and I do. I should do SMARTD<br>
>>> monitoring and I do. But isn't this like selling tires that tend to<br>
>>> shred randomly? Isn't not blowing up catastrophically with no<br>
>>> warning beforehand a basic selling point for disk drives? What's<br>
>>> the point of mirroring if the odds are good that both drives will fail<br>
>>> completely the same week? What's the point of SMARTD monitoring if<br>
>>> the darn drive quits without warning?<br>
>>><br>
>>> Does anybody make a decent drive in that size range?<br>
>>><br>
>>> I'm thinking that not even considering economy, my old theory of<br>
>>> buying a pair of new identical drives may not be wise anymore, and<br>
>>> sticking with one drive that has lasted over a year and one new drive<br>
>>> is a better plan.<br>
>>><br>
>>> Thoughts?<br>
>>><br>
>>> Neal<br>
>>><br>
>>><br>
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