Hard Drives

Hehulk · Post by **Hehulk** » June 21st, 2008, 13:24

I'm looking at buying a new hard drive next week, and so far this is all that's really catching my eye. It's roughy in my price band, but I was wondering if any of you guys can suggest something better?

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » June 21st, 2008, 13:37

WD are generally good, though a few 5punkers have had them brick recently, most likely just a coincidence, but worth mentioning

I'm trying a samsung spinpoint in one of my arrays now, seems good.

also depends on what your budget actually is, you can get a 500gb samsung for another tenner.

Post by **Dog Pants** » June 21st, 2008, 13:44

I'm no expert on hard drives, but I can advise not to buy from Scan. I've had some very bad experiences from them, one of which was very embarrassing because it was an urgent part for work.

Fear · Post by **Fear** » June 21st, 2008, 13:48

I've just bought the exact same HDD from eBuyer, and it works at the moment, and seems ast enough.

WD have always been better than the competition I think, even if that does mean the occasional failure, it's probably less than the others would have failed.

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » June 21st, 2008, 13:59

Scan are weird, they're generally ok, but I don't trust them as much as ebuyer or ocock

Post by **ProfHawking** » June 21st, 2008, 16:27

Ive had two WD raptor drives brick in as many weeks.
I'd probably say seagate have been the most reliable for me.

You pays your money you take your chance. Best thing to do is buy two different ones and use a raid 1 array.

Post by **FatherJack** » June 21st, 2008, 21:18

I've lost three raptors, but never a caviar.

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » June 21st, 2008, 21:35

FatherJack wrote:I've lost three raptors, but never a caviar.

I've had a 1TB RE GP jobber DOA, and one 500gb RE2 jobber die recently (possibly due to power cuts though)

1 raptor RMA'd because I could, really.

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » June 21st, 2008, 21:40

ProfHawking wrote:You pays your money you take your chance. Best thing to do is buy two different ones and use a raid 1 array.

However, it's worth remembering RAID 1 won't stop you being stupid, will save you from drive failures, but not from deleting stuff you didn't mean to.

Regular backups children.

cheeseandham · Post by **cheeseandham** » June 22nd, 2008, 16:29

Dr. kitteny berk wrote:Regular backups children.

Do it, you know berk makes sense.

Post by **ProfHawking** » June 22nd, 2008, 16:50

cheeseandham wrote: Do berk, you know it makes sense.

cheeseandham · Post by **cheeseandham** » June 22nd, 2008, 16:59

Prof, I ask you not to point out my secret affection for berk... the others might get jealous.... (or vomit not sure which yet)

Hehulk · Post by **Hehulk** » June 22nd, 2008, 17:38

Latter option

Stoat · Post by **Stoat** » June 26th, 2008, 15:39

Related, so I'll stick it here.

Spoiler:

I'm tempted by this:
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/128483

It would seem to solve my problems, which are that my PC is running out of space but I have a shitty case that I can't fit any more drives in to.
I also like the idea of being able to fetch stuff from any computer in the house (or indeed not in the house) without have to mess about with home servers.

Your thoughts, oh 5punkytypes.

Post by **Dog Pants** » June 26th, 2008, 16:08

Ooh, shineh. If I needed the storage I'd certainly go for that.

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » June 26th, 2008, 16:28

That should do what you need it to nicely.

Stoat · Post by **Stoat** » June 27th, 2008, 13:43

Impressive. I was doubtful that I could stream HD video over wireless -previous PC-to-PC attempts have been a bit flakey- but it does it flawlessly, even while I'm busy copying stuff on to it.
Disk inside is a Samsung Spinpoint HD501LJ.

edit: On the down side, you can only use FAT32 if you want to access over LAN.

Post by **fabyak** » June 27th, 2008, 15:09

Dog Pants wrote:I'm no expert on hard drives, but I can advise not to buy from Scan. I've had some very bad experiences from them, one of which was very embarrassing because it was an urgent part for work.

Also Hulky, only 8 meg of cache?
Get your chops around this:
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/139739

*Will most likely be getting one of these soon*

Hehulk · Post by **Hehulk** » June 27th, 2008, 15:42

Free delivery

Why did I go and buy all that food