[mythtv-users] 1TB+ drive recommendation?

[Andre Newman]

On 1 Mar 2010, at 22:14, Bobby Gill wrote:

> Looking to make some changes between BE/FE boxes and would like to add a 1TB+, looking at a few different ones I'd appreciate feedback from y'all who may have any experience with any of these:
> 
> Samsung Spinpoint F3EG 1TB: http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822152202
> Seagate Barracuda 1TB: http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148433
> WD 1.5TB Green: http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136351
> Samsung F2 1.5TB: http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822152175

I've got 4 of the Samsung F2 1.5's fast and quiet, runs cool like all the Samsung Spinpoints.

However I've got a lot of Samsung F1 1TB drives (six) and they are failing fast (1 dead, 2 dying) with lots of remapped sectors (>190), wouldn't have bought the F2's if I'd known. Shame as all the Seagates I have are seriously noisy and the Hitachi's run really hot, I had a problem with a Hitachi 7100K that would forget it's partition table about once a month when driven by an Adaptec 1202 controller!!

I've been bitten by the WD power management bug on Macs, I believe Linux suffers the same as BSD.

Andre

 



> ^^ These last two are only ~$15 more for another 500GB... yikes how do I resist!
> 
> Unless any of the above are highly recommended, the WD100FALS looks like the go-to drive??  http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136284
> 
> Thanks a lot for any help
> Bob
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