tinydog computed:
A big thank you to everyone who responded to this thread. All of your advice
was helpful to me and my master.
I decided on a WD 500gb that David recommended. I ordered it from Frys.com and
it arrived the next day. I'm already using it and it couldn't be more simple
which is good because I don't know many commands or tricks. Hopefully moving it
around the doghouse won't affect it.
-------------- Original message from "David Lieb" <dbl@chicagolandmgclub.com>:
--------------
> > Which brand is better - WD or Seagate?
>
> Both are pretty good. I have used hundreds of each of them. I tend to prefer
> WD for desktops and the high-end ST drives for servers. I feel that Seagate
> puts more into their high-end drives, but WD does a better bread-and-butter
> drive. In the early days of IDE, there were ST drives that could not
> establish a master/slave relationship with another identical drive... but I
> was able to make them work as a slave to a WD.
>
> As I said in my earlier post, every hard drive has moving parts and amounts
> to a timebomb waiting for the moment at which it can do you the most damage
> by crashing. The volume of WD drives out there is truly staggering. Yes,
> they will eventually fail, but I have had few failures of WD drives that
> were not due.
> David Lieb
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