Hard drive choice

[Net Llama!]

On Wed, 7 Mar 2007, Tim Wunder wrote:
> On Wednesday 07 March 2007 2:00:42 pm Tony Alfrey wrote:
>> OK, my fancy new MB has arrived, a Gigabyte GA-7VT600.  Oooooohh!
>> Now I need some drives.  My old drives were SCSI but the list has
>> convinced me that trying to use my old SCSI drives and controller might
>> be a waste of time, but I'd like to have some very reliable hard drives
>> and maybe be able to use device names like my SCSI drives (sda, sdb,
>> etc.) and be able to use several drives.  So are SATA drives what I
>> should use?  I like Seagate drives because they have been reliable in
>> the past and they have been very good about warranty replacements.
>> Any suggestions so I can go down to Fry's and blow off half the afternoon?
>>
>> Thanks!
>
> In January I bought 2 seagate 320 GB SATA 'ES' drives for my new system. As I
> understand it, their 'ES' drives are supposed to be more durable, industrial
> drives. I've only used them 2 months so far, so it's hard to say if they were
> worth the extra $5 per... bought the for 99 USD each from Newegg.

I'll second this recommendation.  I purchased two of the same disks from 
Newegg last sept (on sale) for $89/each.

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