7 May
2005
7 May
'05
12:02 a.m.
O.K- I'm confused. (a) Are the bad IBM drives the
ones that say "Frame
[...]
I'm looking for decent IDEs as it seems time is
running out for some of
my drives.
The problematic Deskstar drives were before IBM and Hitachi merged their
disk operations, and have long since been fixed. In general, recent
HGST drives seem to be fine.
I use a *lot* of Maxtor IDE drives, mostly 80MB and 200MB, on 3ware RAID
controllers in Linux boxes, and I've found them to be fairly reliable,
contrary to the opinions expressed here by some people.
However, I basically will not trust my data to any single disk drive
any more; I now keep all my data on RAIDs (either the 3ware or the
Linux "md" software RAID driver), except for my laptop, and I back that
up frequently.
Eric