In other words, your diagnosis was total bullshit, and your move to pitch things was about the most retarded thing anyone with a computer ever did.
You probably trash your own drives by running defrag too goddamned much.
Tell us, pussy boy... how many times a month do you defrag your drives?
I'd bet that you do not even know what fragmentation is, much less what causes it.
Didn't Seagate recently aquire the Samsung's hard drive division?
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I've had good luck with Seagate drives, but I always get the ones with
5 year warranties. I remember WD when the sucked, but their product has been good for at least a decade.Survey gives an edge to Seagate, but I don't consider it to be significant. Basically if you are using WD or Seagate, you are probably using the best in the business. Seagate owns Maxtor, but the fact they kept the Maxtor brand tells me to avoid it. If the brand was good, they would have simply folded the manufacturing capacity into the business.
The whole trick to keep hard drive alive for a long time is proper cooling. That makes much more difference than the brand! I've used all kind of brands in the past decades and many of my hard drives have been in use for more than 10 years without problems. I put hard drives in a 5.25" bracket and mill a slot in the front so the drive has some air flow. It makes all the difference in the world.
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FFS - these proto-hominids get everywhere!
Apparently a collectors item with worthwhile cash value if accompanied by a F/H 5 1/4 360k in an original 5160.
Fortunately my last purchase predates the one indicated in that article.
How many full height 5.25" 360K drives do you want?
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The 2 I've got are plenty - I've only got 1 5160.
My brother reckons they got Hitachi too, but a Google found this:
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Depending on the case, there were already fans to blow air over the = drives or i added one (or more) in my machines. Externals are more of a = problem.
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Depending on the case, there were already fans to blow air over the drives or i added one (or more) in my machines. Externals are more of a problem.
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None of the drives I've bought in the last few years got particularly hot, back in the days when drive temperature was a problem I'd just remove the clip-in blanking insert from the front of the drive bay so the PSU/case fan can suck air past the drive.
There a Google paper on hard drive life and it differs with your cooling suggestion. They found that drive temperature had no impact on drive life, and the main factor was age. What that means? I have no idea, I just go for the 5 year warranty Enterprise class drives.
(our Dell servers seem robust, and do use Seagates. So there are good drives from WD and Seagate)
Lets see where that paper is....
Cheers
There are slow, power-stingy drives (usually 7200 or 5400 rpm), and fast, high-power drives (10,000 or 15,000 rpm). The fast ones, often called 'enterprise', are NOT great backup solutions, because they aren't as high density as the slower units. Truly expensive enterprise drives are also available with surface certifications that eliminate time-consuming but nonfatal correction cycles. For a consumer, it's very hard to locate those expensive drives (and even harder to find out WHY they're worth more).
Warranties, alas, might result in a dead three-year-old drive getting you a rebuilt three-year-old model when the current drives are twice the size or half the price. And the warranty replacement will arrive in eight weeks. Enterprise customers don't get much use from a warranty.
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