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| DaveT |
I just opene up a LaCie Two Big
They use SAMSUNG hard drives in it.
No wonder it's poopy for a RAID.
Another HD Brand that sucks is Hitachi, which I think a lot of MacBook's use. I've always though the MacBook's hard drive sucked. |
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| rizo |
my 4 year old Lacie 200GB external still works, its a single non-raid drive enclosure though
my WD 150GB Raptor and two 500GB are still working -- although almost did think one of my 500GB died til I fixed the file system cause Windows can be retarded sometimes, nothing lost though :)
just got a Seagate 1.5TB to back up all my other drives but after I read about all the freezing issues... hasnt happen to me yet though :nervous: |
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| toolman667 |
What are you talking about Dave? Seagate drives are the . Their 7200.11 series are the fastest drives on the market. Also their laptop "Momentus 7200.3" series is top of its class in power consumption, and average read/write performance.
Should I mention industry leading 5 year warranty?
Suck for raid? Ive got 6 1TB seagate 7200.11's in RAID5, and they are flawless, and extremely fast.
Also Western Digital's new lineup of "green" drives are pretty amazing too, I've got 2 of the 1Tb, for my DVR and they surprised me at how quick they are for being specifically designed for minimal power consumption (and low surface temps). I hear their "black" series are also good.
I would stay away from Hitachi, although they once had a stranglehold on the market (IBM).
Maxtor is poop.. I worked their once in their IT department, and they don't even use their own drives in their own computers. |
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| Rukes |
| I have 4 of the Western Digital 1TB green drives in RAID 5 and they are great. Only slight negative is that they are close to 5400 rpm speed, so not blazingly fast, but it's good enough for RAID backups :) |
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| skizzell |
backups, backups, backups people :)
also, off-site/online backups are a must, even at home. what good is backing up to another drive/media if your house burns down? always prepare for the worst.
/signed, your paranoid disaster recovery expert. |
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| DaveT |
| quote: | Originally posted by toolman667
What are you talking about Dave? Seagate drives are the . Their 7200.11 series are the fastest drives on the market. Also their laptop "Momentus 7200.3" series is top of its class in power consumption, and average read/write performance.
Should I mention industry leading 5 year warranty?
Suck for raid? Ive got 6 1TB seagate 7200.11's in RAID5, and they are flawless, and extremely fast.
Also Western Digital's new lineup of "green" drives are pretty amazing too, I've got 2 of the 1Tb, for my DVR and they surprised me at how quick they are for being specifically designed for minimal power consumption (and low surface temps). I hear their "black" series are also good.
I would stay away from Hitachi, although they once had a stranglehold on the market (IBM).
Maxtor is poop.. I worked their once in their IT department, and they don't even use their own drives in their own computers. |
I am just going by personal history. We hammer our drives. Bigtime. Seagates have jsut given us issues, but not nearly as bad as WDs.
Western Digitals have been the worst, though. Only in the last couple of years.
With the RAIDs, I am referring to Western Digital specifically. We have had a number of RAIDs fail. Different brands. But using WD drives. 10 drive RAIDs in a lot of cases. Luckily we do our RAIDs in RAID 3, so data can be restored, but still having a lot of failures.
Another example: We got a series of computers last year. Each with a two-drive RAID 0 setup using Western Digital. We have had at least a HD in each machine die since getting them. We've had replacement drives die on us. We got another round of the same machines early this year, with the exact same specs except the HDs are Seagates (they actually give you the option between both brands now) , and haven't had nearly the same amount of issues. The Seagates have held up pretty well in these machines actually.
I don't go by reviews, stats, etc. I go on the basis of every day use on a personal level. With that, WDs used to easily be the best. Just seems like on a percentage basis they fail far, far more often than our other drives.
We don't have that many Maxtor drives, but the ones we do have...I can't remember the last time one failed. That said, going by history I still don't trust Maxtor. Just going by the facts of failures in the office in allt his.
I have had two Seagate drives die in the last few months. Though one of them is a bit older.
As time goes by, there will be fewer simple drives to crap out on us. We've mainly moved over to using a full SAN which is like 24 or 32TB now. All fiberchannel. And not sure if we are tapped in just yet, but think our archive system will be some automated one that burns stuff to blue ray discs or something. I forgot. And that's if we ever get on it....not even sure if it's installed in the b uilding yet. Supposing it's still happening! |
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| DaveT |
| quote: | Originally posted by skizzell
backups, backups, backups people :)
also, off-site/online backups are a must, even at home. what good is backing up to another drive/media if your house burns down? always prepare for the worst.
/signed, your paranoid disaster recovery expert. |
I do have backups, just each release is its own folder and stuff. For ableton, I resort copies of those into different structures....I can recover most if not all of it, just gonna take time.
I am more pissed about losign the ableton .asd files for each track.
Stillt rying to recover. |
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| R!CH |
| seagate or go home! no one makes a better hd. |
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| DaveT |
Whelp, I was able to recover 545 of my Ableton .asd files....least that's 545 tracks I don't have to re-warp. Still missing a whole bunch though. :(
Dave |
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| dollaroff |
LaCie's drives are passible; their power supplies are the worst.
Out of the 8 I've had over the past 5 years, 5 power supplies have died. Out of those 5, one of them crashed the drive enough to ruin the drive.
In any case, anyone recommend a plug & play setup for RAID for a Mac office? |
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| dollaroff |
I used to swear by WD, but I agree with DaveT, their quality has gone down.
I dunno anymore. For one of my servers, I just use RAID 1, with 2 disks. Works good enough. |
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