Hard drive choice

[Tony Alfrey]

Bill Campbell wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 07, 2007, 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?
> 
> Industrial quality SATA drives are available, and are (a) generally more
> expensive, (b) have the same internals as SCSI drives, (c) have capacities
> like SCSI (e.g. 18GB, 73GB insteald of multiples of 10, and (d) are usually
> 10,000 rpm or faster.  We've had good luck with the WD Raptors.

OK, I'm off to Fry's to see what they got.



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