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Douglas Spencer

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Advice on Big Disks	[Jan. 28th, 2008\|02:15 pm] Douglas Spencer
I'm about to get four large SATA disks to upgrade a server that's currently got four 250MB disks in it. They're on a proper RAID card (not a mock-RAID-done-in-SW system), and the machine runs vmware-over-Ubuntu. I haven't bought any big disks for ages, so I'm a little out of date. I've looked at the curve of price-per-GB, but I don't have a handle on which disks people feel good about. So... Poll #1128664 Big Disks Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All. Participants: 14 What size of disks would you be happy to have in your server? View Answers Four 500GB SATA disks, might have to upgrade again later 2(15.4%) Four 750GB SATA disks, might possibly outlast the server 8(61.5%) Four 1TB SATA disks, will very probably outlast the server 2(15.4%) Which disks would you be happy to have in your server? View Answers Hitachi 0(0.0%) HP 0(0.0%) Samsung 1(7.1%) Seagate 4(28.6%) Western Digital 1(7.1%) Anything else you'd like to say? View Answers I'll be recovering the existing disks -- two to redeploy as hot-spares in servers of a similar age, and two for desktop systems.
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envoy
2008-01-28 03:07 pm (UTC)

I'd be interested in more details about what you decide when you decide it. I'm looking into a SATA RAID for my new box.

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cobrabay
2008-01-28 04:14 pm (UTC)

I've had some bad experiences recently at work with Western Digital disks. Far too many failures on both internal and external disks (particularly the latter with 2 out of 5 WD ext. drives failing in the 3 months since they were bought).

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phlump
2008-01-28 08:46 pm (UTC)

Wow I misread the subject of this post! lol

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johncoxon
2008-01-29 01:25 am (UTC)

I had a Samsung drive in a LaCie d2 Quadra enclosure and it broke, so I'd avoid them. :)

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