Re: ide drive dying?

Mike Dresser (mdresser_l@windsormachine.com)
Fri, 6 Sep 2002 11:42:05 -0400 (EDT)


On 6 Sep 2002, Alan Cox wrote:

> 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
>
Well, I was looking more on the side of the Windows PC's here at the
office, it's a bit expensive to start running raid on those.

Mike

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