Hard Drive Endurance

[Giles Orr]

"Which hard drive to buy" has come up a couple times on this list:

http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/14/01/21/2232235/who-makes-the-best-hard-disk-drives

The original article, if you want to bypass Slashdot:

http://blog.backblaze.com/2014/01/21/what-hard-drive-should-i-buy/

Backblaze buys the cheapest model of HD they can find, but they use them by
the thousands.  The stats they generate are of course for their specific
use case, but it's interesting.  The short version: Seagate: Bad, Western
Digital: OK, Hitachi: Good (others: not enough data).  I've favoured WD, so
I may need to rethink that.  Definitely interesting.

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Giles
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