Donate Hardware II

I would have recommended Maxtor; however, as Seagate has taken over Maxtor recently, I am hesitant to make such a recommendation. In my experience, and from friends' and colleagues' experiences with Seagate Drives - they tend to fail early and have even greater Dead In Box issues. I myself have had many such experiences in the past, and this has left a very VERY bad taste in my mouth pertaining to Seagate.

No, no, no! Maxtor is probably the only brand that should be totally avoided. I bought an quality-Maxtor HDD a year ago and I sent it back to the shop a week ago, because there were bad sectors and bad S.M.A.R.T.-values. Maybe Seagate will make Maxtor a somewhat better in the future, but I would not count on it. Please, do yourselves a favour and do not buy Maxtor HDDs.

Oh, I don't know about that. I've been buying Maxtor for over twelve years and have yet to have one fail on me.

Now Western Digital is another story. I have about twenty drives I've had to replace out of systems (or some that I bought myself giving WD a try) that all went into the garbage.

The only other brands that I actually trust are Fujitsu, IBM and Seagate (in order of least to most favored).

I've had Seagate(4096 series, Went through 10 to find one that worked, they were full height 5.25" bricks, MFM cables too), Hitachi, Maxtor and WD fail on Me. right now I have one 250GB Seagate sata and 5 Raptors(one 150GB and four 36GB).

So what you're trying to say is that all hard drives fail, huh? lol Never had a Hitachi, but I've had Fujitsu (and some have failed) and IBM (less have failed). WD just has to be the worse when it come to all the hard drives I've gone through in the many years I've been tinkering with computers. You couldn't pay me to take one!

Come to think of it, I had some Maxtor drives back in '89 that I still have in some of my older systems today that are still working. That's about 18 years ago! Too bad Maxtor was bought out, though at least they live on in Seagate (which is why they're my new most trusted HDD manufacturer).

Drive makers have bad batches, I've had the Raptors since Nov 2007, No problems. 10,000rpm and sata, nice. To each their own.

Yeah, unfortunately Maxtor never recovered their reputation from their bad batches. Though I've never actually encountered any of their infamous bad drives, plenty people apparently have and it has stuck with them long enough to kill the reputation of the company.

I would've rather seen it happen to WD though. From my experience they should've been the ones bought out and confined to the footnotes in history.

note: jumpin' in here for a moment Regarding SEAGATE & WD . . .

i personally have NEVER had a problem with EITHER of these Drives

safe when i used the WRONG CABLE - the latest cables (without LIGHTS please) worked like a charm . . . compatiblity issues w/ cables were THE ONLY Problems i ever encountered . . .

well - baCk ta Y'All . . . thought i might mention this!

[edit note] i always bought the Drives in California and now in North Carolina for the Past 4 Years . . .

Drive makers have bad batches, I've had the Raptors since Nov 2007, No problems. 10,000rpm and sata, nice. To each their own.

Drive makers have bad batches, I've had the Raptors since Nov 2007, No problems. 10,000rpm and sata, nice. To each their own.

I see you must have a time machine also...

;-)

I'm join in this projiect since 2007
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I'm join in this projiect since 2007

Okay things that are still needed:

Sata II 750 Gig Drives Times 24 about $248 on the internet. This will help to get data back and forth (Multibeam), and create proper storage towards Near Time Persistency Checking...

CHEETAH 73GB 10K SCSI HDD ST173404FC Fiberchannel 8+ needed...
This gets tougher... about the best going deal I can find is on eBay with a buy it now of $115 each
New Seagate ST173404FC CHEETAH 73.4GB Hard Drive Listed as New drives. this is to take care of the red lights in the NepApp Storage that should not have dismissed... "There are No Spares, but I did not say that..."

Now for the Server Side We see three high power Servers... We here people complain about "Where is the Science?" Well for Near Time Persistency Checking a New High Power server(s) are needed... There are roughly Half a GaZillion Results to run though it... And users keep shoving in another million a day.... Grin...

Next week I should have a small addendum to the list as they are sorting what they can work with if they do not get the new servers...

Regards

Pappa

Sir Pappa, i cannot use any of the payment systems listed to donate money; therefore i need details of an appropriate bank account - acc number, bank name/address, sort code,acc name,and an ABA number.

That would leave Seagate or Fujitsu.

...and Hitachi. For those whom may have forgotten; or, are unaware, a number of years ago Hitachi and IBM got together. Hitachi has taken over IBM's "Deskstar" Hard Drive line. These drives are very very solid.

I would have recommended Maxtor; however, as Seagate has taken over Maxtor recently, I am hesitant to make such a recommendation. In my experience, and from friends' and colleagues' experiences with Seagate Drives - they tend to fail early and have even greater Dead In Box issues. I myself have had many such experiences in the past, and this has left a very VERY bad taste in my mouth pertaining to Seagate.

As stated, Western Digital isn't much better as of late. About nine years ago, they, (in my opinion), shot themselves in the proverbial foot when they cut back their R&D and Q&A Departments. (Except for their High End Drives.) This has had me stay away from Western Digital since 1998.

However; Hitachi is a viable and strong drive. Check out the current "Deskstar" Line by them. Great warranty, great product.


Sincerely,

Also, it would help if the hardware needs were detailed better.