Re: [gentoo-user] 1TB 2.5in drive recommendation

[Alan McKinnon]

On 15/09/2014 13:10, Stroller wrote:
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> On Sun, 14 September 2014, at 9:53 pm, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote:
>> ...
>> Google has 1,000,000+ drives, I'll trust what they say after statistical
>> analysis.
>> Rack Space has a goodly number of drives too so I'll trust them as well.
>> I'll even trust my previous employer (an ISP with 10+ data centres) and
>> customers fitting every example of every drive out there at random.
>
> 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of this kind available - the trouble is that, by the time you've tested drives for 3 years, your information is 3 years out of date (as far as "what's the latest drive I should buy?"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.


Which is why most folks who buy substantial numbers of drives do
something like this:

1. Decide what drives[1] you like and take proper statistical history
into account. The answer is often somewhat random and more about "I
like" rather than "I know for a fact".
2. Buy those drives.
3. Establish a relationship with that vendor.
4. If step #2 goes south and you got duds, get replacements leveraging on #3


But asking a random bunch of dudes on a mailing list "what is a good
drive right now" is a useless question. If the mailing list is big
enough there are only two eventual answers:

- any of them
- none of them


[1] This can be 0, 1 or more drive types



-- 
Alan McKinnon
alan.mckinnon@×××××.com