I'm running a 5 x 750 GB array of Seagates right now on a Dell Perc 5i, but am running out of space. I told myself that I would upgrade when 2 TB drives really started dropping in price, and at the $140 level that we're seeing with holiday sales I'm ready to bite. However, it seems that people are complaining about each kind of drive out there.
WD - Problems with RAID
Seagate - Questions coming from the 1.5 TB series and potentially problems with RAID
Hitachi - Deathstar (I owned two of those, wow, what a pain), but I wouldn't hold that against the company now
So what is actually the safest bet? 5900 vs. 7200 RPM doesn't matter to me because I only need to be able to max out Gb ethernet; in fact, the 5900 RPM drives running cooler would be a good thing. Many people seem to complain about a brand because of reputation, so if I could get opinions from actual owners that would be preferable. Actually, I suppose the real reason I am making this thread is to weed out opinions from what people are actually seeing.
Thanks.
WD - Problems with RAID
Seagate - Questions coming from the 1.5 TB series and potentially problems with RAID
Hitachi - Deathstar (I owned two of those, wow, what a pain), but I wouldn't hold that against the company now
So what is actually the safest bet? 5900 vs. 7200 RPM doesn't matter to me because I only need to be able to max out Gb ethernet; in fact, the 5900 RPM drives running cooler would be a good thing. Many people seem to complain about a brand because of reputation, so if I could get opinions from actual owners that would be preferable. Actually, I suppose the real reason I am making this thread is to weed out opinions from what people are actually seeing.
Thanks.