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On Sun, 14 September 2014, at 9:53 pm, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> Google has 1,000,000+ drives, I'll trust what they say after statistical |
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> analysis. |
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> Rack Space has a goodly number of drives too so I'll trust them as well. |
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> I'll even trust my previous employer (an ISP with 10+ data centres) and |
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> customers fitting every example of every drive out there at random. |
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There is some great information of this kind available - the trouble is that, by the time you've tested drives for 3 years, your information is 3 years out of date (as far as "what's the latest drive I should buy?" is concerned). |
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http://www.pcworld.com/article/2089464/three-year-27-000-drive-study-reveals-the-most-reliable-hard-drive-makers.html |
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From this report we should buy Hitachi and distrust Seagate, but not only were only specific models tested, for all know both manufacturers may have long ago changed their manufacturing methods now. |
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Stroller. |
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