[ale] External disk recommendation

[Solomon Peachy]

On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 05:40:34PM -0400, DJ-Pfulio wrote:
> Hitachi was shockingly less likely to fail than the
> averages.  This was awhile ago, so all those numbers don't really count
> today.  I try to buy Hitachi-branded drives with at least 3-yr warranties.

A few days ago Backblaze released their latest long-term reliability 
study, and HGST drives once again were significantly more reliable than 
everyone else.

On the other hand, Many moons ago I (and many others) had some of a 
particularly infamous batch of "IBM Deathstars" as they came to be 
known.

The moral of the story is that all manufacturers have their ups and 
downs.

> USB HDD warranties usually suck - 90 days or 1 yr. Never higher.  It is
> a reflection of the engineering and HW used.  

It's more a matter of the fact that those drives are explicitly 
portable, and subject to all manner of abuse that an identical drive 
installed inside a case would not.

 - Solomon
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Solomon Peachy        		       pizza at shaftnet dot org
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