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On Sat, 05 Oct 2013 20:53:50 +0100, Roland Tarver <roland.tarver@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 05/10/13 19:28, lhs47crewe@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: >> I have been having problems with 2.5" Toshiba hard drives. >> Sent from my BlackBerry smartphone on O2 >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Simon Waters<simon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> Sender: list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >> Date: Sat, 5 Oct 2013 19:25:04 >> To: list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx<list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> Reply-To: list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >> Subject: Re: [LUG] OT: Hard Disk Reliability - Which manufacturer to >> choose? >> >> The big players like Google have stats, but without them I think any of >> the manufacturers mentioned are fine. Last time I dug deep WD had a >> slight lead in firmware support for various interesting new bits of the >> standards, but unless you plan to use those functions that won't matter >> to you. Possible the gap has closed. >> > Thanks for your replies both of you. I am thinking I will probably go > for a couple of seagate drives. > > cheers roly :-) Get two drives from different manufacturers. You'll know then they'll be from different batches, different plants and not as likely to have the same issue. If you get two identical drives then they could in theory get two drives with the same fault. Personally I've had drives fail from lots of manufacturers (Seagate, WD, Hitachi/IBM, Samsung, Maxtor). There aren't many manufacturers out there these days, the big guys seem to be buying the smaller guys up (IIRC WD bought Hitachi which was IBM before that) and Seagate I gather recently bought the hard drive unit of Samsung. Maxtor drives are now re-badged Seagate drives too (well they have been for the past few years). If it was me I'd maybe go for a Western Digital drive and maybe a Seagate. Not because I prefer them, it's just if you go for say Verbatim or Freecom etc, chances are you're going to get maybe a Western Digital or Seagate drive in the case. You know with Western Digital you're unlikely to get a Seagate drive in the case, and you're unlikely to get a Western Digital drive in a Seagate case. You can buy a bare drive and get your own case but it might just be as easy to get an external drive. eSATA will be quicker than USB as USB uses the host machine's CPU for data transfer. But USB is readily available and backwards compatible (so a USB3 drive will work on a USB2 or USB 1.1 controller albeit at the slower interface speed). eSATA is handy if you have the interface on your PC. Rob -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq