Hard Drive Endurance

[Do-Ming Lum]

Agreed. Every IBM or Hitachi drive I have ever owned failed.  Admittedly
not a very large sample because I have mostly stuck with Seagate and WD.
The Seagate stats are worrying, though.



On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 9:51 AM, Lennart Sorensen <
lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 07:26:05AM -0500, Giles Orr wrote:
> > "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.
>
> The IBM deskstar still worries me, which may be why I never have given
> Hitachi a chance.
>
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