[linux-audio-user] preferred motherboards ?

Ross Vandegrift ross at willow.seitz.com
Wed Jan 29 01:06:01 EST 2003


On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 09:42:17PM +0000, Steve Harris wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 04:27:10PM -0500, Taybin Rutkin wrote:
> > If you're going IDE, avoid Maxtor like the devil.  I run a lab and their
> > harddrives DIE.  They start beeping(!!!) during startup and won't mount.
> > Maxtor is cheap, but sucky.
> 
> OTOH Seagate Barraccuda IVs are highly recommended, quiet and fast. I've
> not had any reliability prblems yet...

My IT day job is a place that uses tons of IDE drives.  I've been
building RAID arrays out of IDE since the days when 8.4G was huge.
There really isn't a correllation between manufacturer and reliability
(with of course, the exception of IBM's Deathstar series, but that's due
to known manufacturing defects).  We've run Seagate, Western Digital,
and Maxtor heavily.  It's just a reality that all drives suck.

RAID arrays are your friend.  We use them everywhere.  It's way better
to skimp a bit on space and double your redundancy - not only is your
data safer, it makes your life that much easier.

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