Not that I'm paranoid or nothin...

[lsanderson]

But I'm moving everything off the baby RAID 5 drive to a backup drive, and then I'm going to yank the two partitions, repartition it as one large partition, and then format it. I've got backups. I was looking at partition software last night, but I've had some unintended fun with Norton's software (which says in really fine print that it doesn't work with RAID drives -- they ain't kidding, by the way). I noticed last night that the drives I based it on, Maxtor 120 GB drives appear to have gone to the obsolete junkyard in the sky. They wuz the sweetspot in that sweet by and by when I first built the RAID. Nowadays, motherboards with RAID controllers are cheaper than most of the RAID controllers out there. Go figure. And Serial ATA (SATA) has pretty much wiped the field. Parallel ATA (PATA or IDE) drives are still around for legacy hardware. But like all hardware, what's old is old, and this electronic hardware turns not to antiques, but to junk for all the junkyards of Asia.

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[whl.livejournal.com]

On the other hand, what is new is not necessarily your friend.

The first 1 GB drive I ever owned howled like a banshee, and died within 6 months.

The first 500 GB drive I ever bought is currently sitting in its case, waiting to be stripped out, having proven to be unreliable. I bought that drive last spring.

Only now, a year later, would I be willing to risk 500 GB drives again, and maybe 750 GB ones. Nothing larger, yet.

I've also had a number of Maxtors die in the last year, even though they are younger than the Western Digital drives I used before them. But picking a drive manufacturer based on someone else's anecdotal experience would be like trying to pick a brand of car that no one has ever had trouble with. You'd end up walking, instead.

Yes!

[lsanderson.livejournal.com]

Right now, I'm liking Seagate's five-year warranty.