Posted by Scott Dorsey on 07/13/06 14:50

Quasar X <Quasar@the.Sun> wrote:
>Hard Drives... Hitachi or Seagate?
>
>Looking for video editing HDs... unsure which brand is more reliable...
>Hitachi or Seagate.

Hard drives are not reliable. Don't expect them to be. Buy fast drives,
make backups, plan for drives to fail.

I'll say that drives made from Seagate's east coast (formerly DEC) factory
used to be a lot more reliable than those from Seagate's west coast
factory. But the technology changes on a daily basis, and therefore so do
the reliability concerns. When a given drive is only made for a few months
before there is a production change, you can't even generalize the reliability
of a particular model.

If you have a critical system where you can't survive a drive failure
because even the loss of a day to reload from backup is a problem, then
get a RAID unit. And make sure the RAID unit is properly set up; I have
seen so many folks who have RAID systems set up with no redundancy because
they don't realize that they need it.
--scott
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"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

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