Hard drive choice

[Bruce Marshall]

On Wednesday 07 March 2007 14:53, Tony Alfrey wrote:
> > 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.
> >
> > HTH,
> > Tim
>
> That's great! ?What SATA controller did you use?


I've been buying  WD3200xxx drives with the 5 yr warranty and quite high MTBF.  
They were recommended to me for server use as they take more punishment and 
last longer.   The price was in the $99 range from Newegg.