Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3397 mails)

["Greg Wallace" <jgregw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

-----Original Message-----
From: Felix Miata [mailto:mrmazda@xxxxxx] 
Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2005 8:13 PM
To: suse-linux-e@xxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [SLE] Hard Drives


On Tuesday, April 05, 2005 @ 8:13 PM, Felix Miata wrote:
>Greg Wallace wrote:
 
?> I want to buy a new additional drive.  I have always used Maxtor in the
>> past.  They seem a bit noisy, but reliability has been good so far.  I
also
>> have used a Western Digital drive but it was even noisier than the
Maxtors.
>> Plus, the device I had it on burned out shortly after I installed it
(maybe
>> just a coincidence, but I don't know).  Anyone care to recommend either
of
>> these or maybe some other brand?

>WD I would never buy. Do some Googling for comments from expert Linux
>developers to see one reason why. The other is they have a unique sound
>that to me sounds truly cheap, which matches the experiences of those I
>know who have used them.

>My last choice is Maxtor, partially because of failure experiences,
>partly because they seem most prone to come in with anomalous
>benchmarking results.

>Drives I've purchased since 01 Jan 2005: Seagate, Hitachi & Samsung. The
>latter two I bought for special reasons. Seagate is my current first
>choice. The recent Barracudas are so incredibly quiet, and Seagate's
>current retail warranty is the best in the biz.
>-- 
>"Love your neighbor as yourself."                Matthew 22:39 NIV

> Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409

>Felix Miata  ***  http://members.ij.net/mrmazda/

You're the second person so far to give Seagate a good reference.  Based on
my interpretation of the responses so far, it's
1)  Seagate
2)  Maxtor
3)  Western Digital

I have seen Seagate offered on vendor web sites, but have never looked into
them.  Sounds like I should.

Thanks,
Greg Wallace