[mythtv-users] Seagate 1.5TB for 109.99

Joe jfwd at phlobus.net
Thu Mar 26 15:54:39 UTC 2009


On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 6:53 PM, Mark Boyum <mark at boyum.us> wrote:
>> Yes, I completely agree that you will have no end of problems with these
>> drives.  Since you once read somewhere that there were problems with
>> them, anything that ever happens will be due to the problems with them,
>> not due to whatever causes the problems.
>>
> FWIW I have been using a 1.5 TB Seagate drive to store my recordings
> since January with-out issue.
> Knocking on wood...


I will second that - I took a chance (after reading about the
problems) and bought one of these disks for my master backend.  I
installed it back in December and has not given me any issues as of
yet.  It even has the "bad" firmware SD17 (or whatever it is).  But I
am not using RAID - just LVM - and it's only holding recordings, not
the DB or system partition.  So far I'm happy - YMMV of course.

I suspect that the majority of the drives do actually work, but the
people who are happy with them are not vocal about it (for obvious
reasons).  I am even considering taking advantage of this deal and
picking up another one - thanks for the link!

-Joe


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