On 16 April 2010 15:26, David King <linux...@avoura.com> wrote: > > > Alan Lord (News) wrote: > > > > I have tended toward Samsung (1st choice) or Hitachi (2nd) for HDDs for > > years now. Not had one every fail - yet. (But I still take nightly > backups) > > > > Al > > > > > I have had a Hitachi DeskStar go bad recently. They are even nicknamed > DeathStar due to a high failure rate years ago when the brand was still > owned by IBM. > > Samsung drives have so far been good for me. > > > david > <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/> >
I have gone for Seagate for the last 5 years and have not had any failure (touches lots of wood). I intend to upgrade my oldest drives within the year as they are too small, noisier and more power hungry than recent Seagate, which on the whole have been a lot quieter. Except on my netbook, I use raid everywhere, but should do more about back up (I keep telling myself that raid != backup). Most of the important stuff is either on raid or on Ubuntu one cloud storage. -- John Stevenson jr0cket.com leanagilemachine.com
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