[Pc_Support] 320GB WD3200JD SATA drive for $107 shipped ...

[Bryan J. Smith]

Phil Barnett <philb at philb.us> wrote:
> We had 418 Maxtors fail in a shipment of ~1000 machines in
> the last year at work.

Our failure rate of Maxtor SATA drives was on the same pace
in my group at Boeing.  Over 40 in ~300 systems in 3 months.

> No brand is immune.

Commodity hard drives are a continued issue.

Fortunately, Seagate has adopted a new process and has
returned to 5 year warranties.  Hitachi (including IBM/WD)
has adopted it for some drives.  Both Seagate and Hitachi (as
well as IBM/WD) offer "Enterprise Near-Line" disks rated for
24x7 operation now from the same lines.  You pay a premium
for them, but they are tested to higher tolerances.

Otherwise, you can _always_ go to the true-blue Enterprise
disks with capacities of 36, 73 and 146GB.  They are
available in SATA form as well.  Here at my new job, we're
using WD 73GB 10K Raptors (aka Hitachi 73GB 10K Ultrastar)
because the vibrations and tolerances are still 3x better
than even the latest commodity disk designs of
Seagate/Hitachi.


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