Hdd

[chamois]

so we had a power surge the other night, 1 of my hard drives dropped out of the raid array and won't re-sync. Long story short, my 2x 400GB drives are about 4 years old now, we've had a good run and it's time to send them on their way before i rebuild the system from scratch (dual booting W7 and ubuntu 10.10, both 64-bit)

Anyway, I want a couple of new relatively high performance 1TB drives. Suggestions?

[Keven]

It's kinda like bike brands everyone has different preferences. I've always used Seagate and never had any problems, a few friends have used Western Digital and they crapped themselves.

[TOU93]

I personally like hitachi drives. The company i use to work for used them all in their media servers and had way less failures than any other drive.

Hitachi HDDs are also used in the machine that gives you the replays in live sport and these machines are recording 4 channels and playing 2 channels of uncompressed HD video at once!

[Jing]

http://www.harddrivebenchmark.net/high_end_drives.html

keep in mind that this is only one benchmark but it provides an indication all the same.

Also the bigger the platter the faster it naturally is as the data is denser. If you can, go 2tb. Minimal difference in price. Approx 2 box of gu's worth

[chamois]

cheers guys.

i had originally planned to try and do this on the cheap, but like everything it's a false economy. $200+/drive and w7 = this is turning into a not-so-cheap endeavour, though replacing 2 very good drives with crappy drives and creating an I/O bottleneck that i'll be stuck with for years is a dumb idea.

unfortunately, my local doesn't stock hitachi so i think i'm going to end up with a couple of 2TB seagate 7200 32mb cache jobbies

[ukalipt]

get a mac

[Jing]

dont listen to apple owners

[chamois]

get a mac

i very seriously considered triple booting it, i even got to the point of almost buying a copy of osx but then i realised that anything i can't do on ubuntu i can do on windows and the osx partition would just sit there collecting dust - i'm not going to buy software for it and i live in a virus free world on ubuntu so there's just no drawcard to make me shutdown and reboot just to use osx...

[Iceman]

Ubuntu FTW!

[Jing]

can ubuntu play starcraft though