Author: Mat Grove Date: To: hampshire Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Replacement hard drive question
On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 18:12:38 +0100
john lewis <johnlewis@???> wrote:
> How to overcome this problem is the next question, should we put new
> drives into a 'test bed' and drive them for 3 months to get the poor
> infant over the teething problems before using them in a 'real'
> system.
The way I now do it for my home server is buy pairs of drives from two
different manufacturers and try and keep them as cool as possible. I'm
currently using Western Digital and Seagate but I don't really mind as
long as it isn't Maxtor.
I use RAID1 and then backup to a 3rd HD which is in an external
enclosure.
