FOAK: Hard drives

Requirements are IDE, 3.5", reliable and quiet. Less than 500 gigs. What
maker's flavour of the month?

 

Any, bar Hitachi or Samsung.

I have a cupboard full of said rubbish waiting to be collected for "warranty
assessment"

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I've been buying seagate 7200.11's which have a 5 yr warranty, but not
sure if they do <500GB. Not sure there's much point buying smaller
either as 500gb is less than 50 quid these days.

 

Greybeard wibbled:

You can add Maxtor to that list as well.

 

MY mileage varies. Been using Samsung Spinpoint series from 20G IDE
through to 500G SATA for the last mumble years. Six in all, all still
working fine. The one disk that wasn't Samsung in that time is the only
one that broke (WD IIRC).

 

Hmmmm.... two of the most reliable drive mfrs in the market place at
the moment.

In the last six months I've had about 60k drives from both Samsung and
HGST, both are stunningly reliable running at under 0.5% eAFR .
(Collected from over 800000 part weeks of data).

You must have the midas touch ;-)

 

They must have improved their Quality Control then.
It's been a while since our company bought any, maybe we'll try them again
then.
60K drives is a lot of drives we get through about 500 a month on average,
most now though are SAS, FC, & a few SATA drives. Very Few failures on new
ones, HP (are main supplier) never sends "cheap" drives.

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I'm not self employed! nor a consultant, just a mere hardware monkey ;o)

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Most small drives seem to cost a fortune nowadays, by comparison.
We still have to source <4gb ones on occasions for a particular client! Not
easy or cheap, by comparison.

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Heh, we can get through 500 a day quite easily with all the lines running !
Mostly 3.5" SATA and 2.5" SATA (Fuji/Hit/Tosh Mainly) and a smattering of
SAS for good measure.
Samsung had a shaky start in the hdd market but seem pretty solid now with
well robust proucts in the S1 / S2 Drives.
Hitachi were average when they shook off the ibm stigma but again are solid
now.

 

Thanks for the info.
I'll recommend we try them again.
Since you seem to be gobbling up the world's supply of HDD's single handedly
<sp> at the moment, it's a recommendation I feel safe with ;o)

Cheers.

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That may be the case.
But a bad name takes a while to shift, and if I was fitting a bad product to
your system, you wouldn't be very happy. Things change my friend, and I'm
open to refreshing my prejudices on sensible advisement.

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Heh, best of luck trying to get Samung to accept a warranty return.

Useless shower of twats

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Interesting.

I've got (at the moment) 8 Samsung spinrites running in various
machines, including a media centre (with three of the fuckers) that's on
24/7 and records I would guess in the region of 6 hours of crap a day on
average.

I've not heard complaints about the Samsungs before. Would be
interested if anyone (bar champ who had a DOA) also had problems with
Samsung drives.

 

Quite the reverse. They were my preferred brand for a while, never saw a
failure unlike Seagate and Fujitsu. My sample is hardly of a
statistically valid sample size.

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Exactly.

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