Advice needed on hard disk purchase

[Kurt Wall]

On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 12:19:52PM +0100, Federico Voges wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm planning on replacing my old RAID5 array on my linux server with a  
> couple of 1TB mirrored SATA disks.
>
> As I have no idea which brands/models are currently considered good, I'd  
> like to hear your opinions.
>
> I'm specially interested in which brands/models I should really stay  
> away from.

I would avoid Western Digital and Maxtor.

I routinely use and recommend Seagate drives. In fact, at $dayjob 
we're using 4 of these in a RAID array:

Seagate 1TB drives (ST31000340NS)

In the interests of accuracy, netllama selected them. When it comes to
Seagate drives though, we're on the same page.

Kurt
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