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Nick W
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 Posted: Wed Aug 04, 2004 6:04 am Post subject: New Hard Disks - Recommendations? |
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Hi all,
Looking to buy a couple of new HD's. Dont know much about them other than what they do of course, so does anyone have any advice for choosing a brand/size for Gentoo?
I was looking at these Maxtor drives...
Your thoughts and advice appreciated.
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NeddySeagoon
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| Posted: Wed Aug 04, 2004 5:36 pm Post subject: |
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Nick W,
Heres some parameters to check out.
SATA is not worth the premium yet - its still only 150MHz
Big caches (8Mb) are better than small ones (or none)
Higher spindle speads reduce latencey 7200 is a good compromise, because it puts the cost up.
Dont' by a Deskstar of any sort.
I've got a Maxtor Model=Maxtor 6Y160P0
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lbrtuk
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| Seagates are surprisingly cheap, I've never had one die on me (more than I can say about others) and quite recently they increased the warranty on their drives to 5 years. Which is good. |
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Nick W
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| Posted: Thu Aug 05, 2004 6:08 am Post subject: |
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Thanks guys, after reading a few threads I went for these Seagate drives 
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Raistlin
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| Posted: Thu Aug 05, 2004 9:43 am Post subject: |
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| NeddySeagoon wrote: | | ...Dont' by a Deskstar of any sort... |
 why so? (i have severals that work without errors for many years now...
cheers, raist.
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My advice is to never buy cheap whitelabel drives. I had one brand new drive die a few weeks after I got it.
I like Seagates. Never had a problem with them, and they're *really* quiet. |
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| Quote: | | I had one brand new drive die a few weeks after I got it. |
This is infant mortality. It happens to all drive manufacturers. In the 100+ drives that I have bought in the last 7 years, 2 of them suffered this same problem. One was a WD the other was IBM.
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| Quote: | | SATA is not worth the premium yet - its still only 150MHz |
I would agree with you last year on this one but now the premium for SATA isn't that large at all (like $5 to $20). And the best point is the cables are much smaller so you can have better airflow in your case and you can have longer lengths if you need...
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| drescherjm wrote: | | Quote: | | SATA is not worth the premium yet - its still only 150MHz |
I would agree with you last year on this one but now the premium for SATA isn't that large at all (like $5 to $20). And the best point is the cables are much smaller so you can have better airflow in your case and you can have longer lengths if you need... |
With a 7200 RPM drive, You probably won't even use a lot of the data bandwidth that the SATA hardware & protocol allow. In fact, it'd probably be better to use a really nice IDE drive that has an 8 or 16-meg cache/buffer. If you want SATA though (rather than IDE), remember that for the same price, you can get much faster data transfer, but probably not as much space. For example, I am getting two WD 74 GB Raptors, 10 K RPM.
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| SATA also supports an enhanced command set, and such I/O enhancing features such as Tagged Command Queing |
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