[LAU] Which SATA drive? Size? [Was: Re: partition table]

[david]

Sometime ago, a friend of mine reported that one manufacturer made the 
same model drives in both Japan and Malaysia. The ones made in Japan 
were great. The Malaysian-made drives were notorious for problems.

Don't know if that's still true now, but I wouldn't be surprised if 
manufacturer factories' QA isn't all that consistent.

Kevin Cosgrove wrote:
> On 23 December 2010 at 19:21, Arnold Krille <arnold at arnoldarts.de> wrote:
> 
>> What matters is reliability. And when you ask 10 people about
>> that, you will get 10 different opinions.  As you ask for
>> that, here is my experience:  I had seagate disks fail, I have
>> seagate disks running fine since 5 years.  I have western
>> digital disks work fine since years. I had an IBM disk fail
>> after about two years. I have maxtor disks perform good since 5
>> years. My hardware dealer recommended me samsung disks, but the
>> first two I bought failed after about two years. Lets see how
>> the rest of them (bought later) performs...
> 
> I've got to agree with that.  I've had Quantum, Seagate, CDC,
> Western Digital, Fujitsu and IBM, and many of each over the
> years.  Each of those brands, except for CDC has performed
> flawlessly for 5-7 years.  Also, each of those brands has died
> within 1-2 years.  The CDCs were a problem.  But, I bought them
> used and back when 600MB was a huge capacity.  If you have a look
> at the buyer comments at an on-line retail site, Newegg would be
> one, then you'll see the new user comments will have rave reviews
> for many months or even over a year solid, followed by reviews
> about DOA drives and drives that fail too soon.  This seems to
> happen for all brands I buy, which seems to add credence to the
> urban lore about disk drives that some batches of drives are fine
> and then batches are bad.  If you could figure out which batch is
> good in advance of a purchase, then you'd be set.
> 
> As for quietness, my Seagate 7200RPM Barracuda (Ultra ATA 100,
> up to 320GB) drives are very quiet.  Also my Western Digital
> Caviar (500GB and 1TB SATA) drives are very quiet.  My Fujitsu
> drives are very loud, even though they're 7200RPM.  I pulled the
> Fujitsu drives from my machines as they're even too loud for a
> home office environment.
> 
> If you can find a retailer that will sell you drives with a "no
> questions asked" return policy, then you can decide if they're
> quiet enough.  For my failing drives, Newegg was good about the
> DOAs.  Quantum and IBM exchanged my dead drives for reconditioned
> units, even though those dead drives were way past their warranty
> period.  Seagate customer support helped me diagnose my drive's
> problem with some of their software (yes, on Linux!) and then
> exchanged that drive for a reconditioned unit.  I have no
> experience with the other vendors' customer service folks.
> 
> I hope that's useful info.
> 
> As was said earlier, good luck!
> 
> --
> Kevin
> 
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