<p>Its interesting hearing so many views on hd's.</p>
<p>I used to work for an industrial computer manufacturer and we swore by quantum drives (now maxtor) and wouldn't touch seagate ( my own experiwence was seagate was a pita as well). But so much time has passed and a dodgy hd from maxtor meant I became promiscuous with hd purchases. I bought 5 x 500gb drives all from different manufacturers.</p>
<p>My threory was this; I have often seen several drives die within a very short period of each other when all in the same raid and bought with the same machine. Either it is usage/environment that is causing it, manufacturing batch issues or a combination.</p>
<p>I bought 5 drives using mdadm put them in raid.</p>
<p>And the results?</p>
<p>They ran hot and I couldn't keep mdadm running properly, after losing the raid twice (with all data) I went out and bought a seagate barracuda 1.5tb drive - all the 500gb drives are still running though in various machines.</p>
<p>Lol</p>
<p>R</p>
<p>Please excuse brevity (was this email too short?) and mistakes, this email was composed on a mobile phone.</p>
<p>Thanks and regards,<br>
Richard Morton<br><br><br><br></p>
<p><blockquote type="cite">On Sep 22, 2009 3:10 PM, "Ian Clark" <<a href="mailto:mrrooster@gmail.com">mrrooster@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/9/19 Michelle Dupuis <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:support@ocg.ca" target="_blank">support@ocg.ca</a>></span><p>
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> From experience, avoid ATI cards. As well, check out VDPAU which is
> Nvidia...moves all deint...</font></p><div><br>Be careful with older nVidia stuff, they had major packaging issues a while back, newer stuff should be ok though.<br><br>ATI onboard graphics are absolutly fantastic.... unless you want to use myth, although there seem to be more favourable reports with later/opensource ATI drivers. It's still really nVidia for myth though.<br>
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> On hard disks, I have great experience with Seagate in servers - but the
> past year I've read...</font></p><div>For HDs I would recommend Hitachi, reliable, well priced and fairly decent RMA procedure too. (A friend had a few of the deathstars in a RAID a few years ago, they failed 1 by 1. :) )<br>
<br>Whilst home usage, and the small sample set of my friends can't really provide any definitive statistics, I have (currently) got 11 HDs in regular use, 9 of them are HGST (well, ok a couple of the older ones are actually IBM they're that old. ;) ), 6 of these are in my home server which is on 24/7.<br>
<br>Seagate get good reviews but I've personally had mixed experiences. (My myth box has a 300G seagate which is fine, but I had a 1.2G one years ago that was funny, ditto the 8G one I bought a bit later on. Lots of people have had issues with the latest 1.5T ones.)<br>
<br>I'd avoid Western Digital and any of the 'cheap' brands (Maxtor and Samsung spring to mind.)<br><br>I've had little experience with Fujitsu, only ever owning 2 of them. One failed, one is still running in my main PC with OS X on it. (It's a laptop drive too.)<br>
<br>Ian<br><br></div></div>
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