[Pc_Support] Re: HD price/capacity, upgrading issues -- WAS: "Consumer" 250 GB (WD2500JS)

[Bryan J. Smith]

Homer Whittaker <whittake at sbaflorida.com> wrote:
> 40 GB used to be fine but I have found that in today's world I
> start to get messages in re the fullness of the disks and that
> makes me nervous.

I always buy the largest capacity that is the best price/capacity and
a "known good" model.

Two years ago that was the 100GB/platter Seagate Barracuda 7200.7
200GB (ATA).

Last year through early this year, that was the 107GB/platter Western
Digital WD3200JD/SD (Caviar SE/RE) 320GB (SATA).

Right now only the 400GB have come down to under $0.30/GB, but I
don't like any of the specs I've seen on them.  The 500GBs are still
over $0.40/GB in most cases.

The new Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 750GB just hit $0.40/GB, and
typically has much better thermal/power/noise ratings than 500GB
models.  I'm waiting for it to drop to $0.30/GB, around $225 before
buying, which I hope will be in 3 months.

> I also do not like the fact that it a pain to switch into two new 
> drives, and I also always loose something in the transfer.

Huh?  What are you using?

I've now done literally over _500_ volume transfers in the last 8
years on HP/UX, Linux and Solaris using find|cipo, and Windows when
dual-booting (via dd under Linux).  _Never_ lost a _single_ byte of
data.

> Which is worst "time out" or "full"

Huh?  Sounds like you aren't limiting copying to the current mount,
and letting it cross filesystems.


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