You should consider Western Digital as well. Often, a particular model of Western Digital is the SAME drive that you get when you buy an IBM drive. I am not sure what sort of deal they have, but it seems there is a bit of overlap with respect to hardware between IBM and Western Digital. I think the overlap is the WD Caviar drives. I have been using these and they seem to run forever (knock on wood). Tom Veldhouse veldy at veldy.net ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brian" <lxy at cloudnet.com> To: <tclug-list at mn-linux.org> Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2001 1:23 PM Subject: Re: [TCLUG] HDD IO optimizing > > > 2. When all your 75Gb go down the tubes... You'll be sorry you were cheap. > > > > you mean you think paying more than 2x as much for scsi somehow protects > > you from drive failing? > > Yes, I'm puzzled as well. Are SCSI drives more reliable than IDE? For my > money, an IBM ATA/100 7200RPM drive is sufficiently fast and just as > reliable as SCSI. Referencing the original quote of $172 on Pricewatch > for a 76GB, beware. Cheap drives are out there and they're not worth > their price. Anything other than Seagate and IBM are not allowed in my > house. Then I can spend all that money on an IDE RAID 5 controller. > > -Brian > > > > > _______________________________________________ > tclug-list mailing list > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >