Interesting thread!
I myself have been looking to replace my two (P)ATA drives (200 GB
DiamondMax 9) in my homeserver to Maxtors MaXLine III series, primarily
due to the fact that they claim ther're designed for 24/7 use:
http://www.maxtor.com/portal/site/Maxtor/menuitem.ba88f6d7cf664718376049
b291346068/?channelpath=/en_us/Products/Enterprise%20Storage/MaXLine%20F
amily/MaXLine%20III
"These third-generation MaXLine drives offer up to 300GB storage
capacity and are designed for mean time to failure (MTTF) of 1 million
hours (based on a statistical sample) for low-I/O duty cycle midline and
nearline applications."
I am interested in hearing others interpretation of the MaXLine III's
spec's as well as positive/negative user experiences with their drives.
PS.: What SATA cards can be recommended (Good OS X compatibility as well
as good price) - I especially noted Dan's comment about external SATA
drives!
:-) TvE
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From: macos-x-server-bounces+teve=email@hidden
[mailto:macos-x-server-bounces+teve=email@hidden] On Behalf Of
Chris Prew
Sent: 22. november 2005 23:11
To: email@hidden
Subject: Re: La Cie disks
I bought 3 laCie big disks - 500gb for Rsync data backups, and one of
them was flaky out of the box. After transferring a certain amount of
data to it via Rsync, I'd start getting I/O errors, and no more data
would get copied. After I'd unmount it, it wouldn't be recognized. Had
to fight with LaCie support for weeks to get them to take it back for
repair (we can't test it using rsync, they said), but they finally took
it, and I'm still waiting for it to come back.
Prior to lacie, I've had a near perfect track record with (believe it
or not) Maxtor FW drives. I've bought 8 in 4 years, and only had one
fail (the first one I bought failed just a month or so ago. 4 year life
isn't bad for that price point-- and after the drive failed, it was
childs play to crack open the enclosure and throw another hd in there).
Only switched to lacie to get the 500gb capacity maxtor wasn't yet
offering. I may yet switch back if their storage catches up to my
capacity.
Chris
On Nov 21, 2005, at 10:24 AM, Bryan Dulock wrote:
> On Nov 21, 2005, at 8:14 AM, Kevin Wesel wrote:
>
>> Well after having just lost my 3rd LaCie FW drive (Out of 4) in the
>> matter of 1 year I am ready to try other brands. I would like to
>> throw it out to the list to find out what brand seems to work longer
>> than 1 year. (Sarcasm aside, what brand do you trust?)
>>
>> On a side note I have not lost any Data as these were used as the
>> back ups.
>>
>> KW
>
> I like G-technology's offerings but I don't have a feel for their
> quality over a long period of time.
>
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