[mythtv-users] OT: 3 week old HDD "Clicking" ??

[Ian Clark]

2009/5/4 Calvin Dodge <caldodge at gmail.com>

> [snip seagate suckyness]
>
>
> I'll throw in my regular plug for Hitachi drives here - they don't
> have a perfect record, but they're good enough that the company
> (www.tummy.com) which leases servers to my employer will use nothing
> else (and they have enough servers to get valid statistics, rather
> than just the anecdotal "I used Brand Y, and it was DOA" stories).
>

 I'd second that one, if you avoid the Deathstar era (Deskstar 30GXP and
60GXPs IIRC) Hitachi drives are very good, and even when they do break their
RMA policy is good too. A friend had a couple of Deathstar era drives that
went bad, and were RMAd without issue.

Of the 11 drives in regular use at home 9 are HGST. I've had 1 fail over the
years, a 160G SATA, that was 4 years old and had spent 50% of that time
powered up (24/7 towards the end of it's life), but even that managed to
survive long enough to read all the data off without error. (and it had been
getting worse according to SMART for 6-8 months before it died.)

I'd second the sentement about Seagate too, although looking on the net most
people do seem to be happy with them. Mind you, I don't like WD or Fujitsu
either. :)

I had a SCSI Seagate drive about 15 yeears ago  that was amazing, but I've
had a few IDE drives over the years that have been variously a bit funny. (a
1.2G IDE that was flaky, common problem ST150somethingsomething I think, and
an 8G that was fine until you overclocked the IDE bus slightly, then it ate
your data, not really it's problem but the IBMs on the same bus were fine.)

Although one off my non Hitachi drives at the moment is a Seagate, and I've
had no issues with it.


> I really DO wish Google would release their drive brand reliability
> stats, though (they saw an order of magnitude difference between the
> best brand and the worst one, but they won't publish THAT
> information).
>

Yeah, I'd be interested in that too. That survay did stop me cooling HDs
though. ;)

Ian
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