Dan Podeanu wrote:

>I would never buy a Samsung HDD, as I would never buy an HP switch, or an LG
>mobile phone.
>
>Buy harddrives from those that do harddrives for a living (maxtor, seagata,
>western digital), switches from cisco, nortel, etc., mobiles from siemens,
>nokia, etc.
>
>Just my imho.
>
>  
>

I've had hard drives from each of those manufacturers go belly up (and 
from IBM too).  And i wouldn't say siemens does mobiles for a living, 
it's a huge company involved in everything from power 
manufacturing/distribution to CRM systems for hotels.

My powerbook hard drive just went belly up a few days ago (i'm digging 
to find my applecare warranty info on it.)  Fortunately my e-mail (and 
backups of all my files)  is on my gentoo server, made available via the 
convenient cyrus IMAP server.

Hmm, this brings forth the question how (and how often) do others backup 
their systems? (perhaps should be moved from the security list, although 
backups are an essential part of security).  I've got an old OnStream 
ADR drive I want to get working on my Gentoo server (using AMANDA) but 
haven't had time to mess around with it lately (fatal last words I guess).

Kevin


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