Re: another dead HD, which do you use?
- From: Pooh Bear <rabbitsfriendsandrelations@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2005 16:47:52 +0100
John Popelish wrote:
> martin griffith wrote:
> > 2 HD's dead this month, googleling for "Hard Drive Reliabilty" gives
> > zillions of pages of adverts saying how reliable Our HD's are. Even
> > tomshardware didnt go into it in detail
> >
> > What do you use?
> >
> > BTW I notice that my latest drive must not be exposed to more than
> > 350G's of shock. I'd accept 100G's if they lasted longer...
>
> The trouble with this information is that by the time you have
> established that any brand or model has long term reliability, the
> design has changed. That said, I have had very good results with 3 or
> 4 Western Digital Caviar EIDE drives. They have all lasted in excess
> of 5 years (some used almost every day) and are still doing fine.
> They are not the high spindle speed versions, however, and all the new
> ones seem to run at 7200 RPM.
Just to spoil the fun I've seen a totally seized WD Caviar ( spindle motor
won't run - admittedly after storage ) and another one I had used to make
disturbing 'zizzing' noises - and that was a 5200 rpm drive !
7200 rpm is the norm for desktop drives now. 10,000 is not unusual - once
the province of ultra high spec SCSI drives that I think now run at up to
15,000.
Oh I've had - pro-rata - more trouble with Seagate drives than I would wish
on anyone. I wouldn't touch one with a bargepole now.
Graham
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