[mythtv-users] > 1TB Hard Drive Recommendations

Bobby Gill brownitus at gmail.com
Sat Oct 3 18:11:55 UTC 2009


On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 1:36 PM, Paul Bender <pebender at san.rr.com> wrote:

> John Finlay wrote:
>
>> I recently tried to upgrade my storage with a Seagate LP 1.5TB hard drive
>> but it started failing almost immediately. Shortly thereafter my 6 month old
>> 1TB western digital drive failed and I got a warranty replacement from WD
>> which started failing after 2 weeks (another replacement is on the way).
>> This experience and the problems I've seen others have with Seagate drives
>> makes me wary of buying more WD or Seagate drives and thinking about trying
>> other brands.
>>
>> I'm looking for recommendations on which >1TB drives would be reliable for
>> mythtv storage.
>>
>
> Over the past decade, I have had Samsung, Seagate and WD drives fail.
> However, since increasing the cooling of the my Myth backend's drives (more
> fans blowing across the drives), I have had no problems (post hoc ergo
> propter hoc).
>
> Based on my experiences, I have concluded two things: (1) hard disk
> reliability is about the same for all major vendors, and (2) RAID 1 is a
> very good idea.
>
> Currently, my backend has Seagate 750MB drives in RAID 1 for its
> non-recording drives and Western Digital 2GB drives in RAID 1 for its
> recording drives. So far, I have had no problems (including drive problems).
> However, I am not so arrogant to assume that I will not have disk problems,
> so I will continue to use a RAID 1 configuration.
>
>
Just to note, I do recall an extensive Google study resulting in no
noticeable difference in reliability across temperature bands, someone can
correct me if I'm off on the details.

Also, I'm looking to grab at least 2TB very soon and I am thinking the
WDFALS model (black 1TB 32MB cache) is the one to go with again, as I
grabbed one earlier in the year. Prices appear to be dipping steadily too.


Bob
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