software raid on removable drives for backups

[Net Llama!]

On Thu, 3 Feb 2005, Michael Hipp wrote:
> A. Khattri wrote:
> > On Thu, 3 Feb 2005, Jason Joines wrote:
> >
> >
> >>They were all 80 GB Maxtor D540X drives.
> >
> >
> > Having used Maxtor and Western Digital drives and have them fail *within*
> > the warranty, we have decided to use only Seagate drives - they seem to
> > last a long time (espec. SCSI) and have a 5 year warranty.
>
> A. Khattri's advice is spot on. If reliability matters, there's no
> beating Seagate.

I'll 3rd that recommendation.  If you care about your production data, use
Seagate SCSI drives.

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