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Re: [trinity-devel] Raising funds for TDE

From: "Timothy Pearson" <kb9vqf@...>
Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2012 22:26:29 -0600
>> Been there, wasted $$$, now I only buy one type of
>> validated, extremely
>> reliable enterprise-grade disk from Hitachi. :-)
>> Seagate and Western
>> Digital both have have serious Q/C problems recently with
>> their drives,
>> and WD especially makes drives that will fail or function
>> very poorly in
>> enterprise hardware, all in the interest of being
>> "green".  Ugh.
>
> Would you post a link to the model number you like?
>
> Thanks! :)
>
> Darrell

Hitachi P/N 0F10311 (2TB 7200RPM).  They are somewhat hard to find now,
but I have never had one fail once it was in service.  The only failure I
had was a DOA drive, it failed as soon as it was plugged in, and it may
have been dropped in shipment.

Tim