[Spridgets] OT - External hard drives

[tinydog at snet.net]

tinydog computed:

A big thank you to everyone who responded to this thread. All of your advice was helpful to me and my master.

I decided on a WD 500gb that David recommended. I ordered it from Frys.com and it arrived the next day. I'm already using it and it couldn't be more simple which is good because I don't know many commands or tricks. Hopefully moving it around the doghouse won't affect it.



 -------------- Original message from "David Lieb" <dbl at chicagolandmgclub.com>: --------------


> > Which brand is better - WD or Seagate?
> 
> Both are pretty good. I have used hundreds of each of them. I tend to prefer 
> WD for desktops and the high-end ST drives for servers. I feel that Seagate 
> puts more into their high-end drives, but WD does a better bread-and-butter 
> drive. In the early days of IDE, there were ST drives that could not 
> establish a master/slave relationship with another identical drive... but I 
> was able to make them work as a slave to a WD.
> 
> As I said in my earlier post, every hard drive has moving parts and amounts 
> to a timebomb waiting for the moment at which it can do you the most damage 
> by crashing. The volume of WD drives out there is truly staggering. Yes, 
> they will eventually fail, but I have had few failures of WD drives that 
> were not due.
> David Lieb