Re: ide drive dying?

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
06 Sep 2002 16:39:07 +0100

On Fri, 2002-09-06 at 16:26, Mike Dresser wrote:
> eBAY, and buy yourself a new drive. You can pickup 80 gig drives for
> around 80 bucks nowadays. I used to recommend Maxtors, until they said
> they're cutting their warranty to one year from three. I don't know what
> to use anymore.

At current drive density and reliabilities - raid. Software raid setups
are so cheap there is little point not running RAID on IDE nowdays

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