From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Q8eLv-0003NJ-KL for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 09 Apr 2011 20:01:51 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id ADB251C012; Sat, 9 Apr 2011 20:00:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.ukfsn.org (mail.ukfsn.org [77.75.108.10]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B7D21C012 for ; Sat, 9 Apr 2011 20:00:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (smtp-filter.ukfsn.org [192.168.54.205]) by mail.ukfsn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6784FDEC38 for ; Sat, 9 Apr 2011 21:00:22 +0100 (BST) Received: from mail.ukfsn.org ([192.168.54.25]) by localhost (smtp-filter.ukfsn.org [192.168.54.205]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id YzOWIkemJ2nt for ; Sat, 9 Apr 2011 21:00:21 +0100 (BST) Received: from wstn.localnet (unknown [78.32.181.186]) by mail.ukfsn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C7AE0DEC24 for ; Sat, 9 Apr 2011 21:00:21 +0100 (BST) From: Peter Humphrey Organization: at home To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] [OT] Disk recommendations? Date: Sat, 9 Apr 2011 21:00:19 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (Linux/2.6.36-gentoo-r8; KDE/4.4.5; x86_64; ; ) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201104092100.19783.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 82277948fb11d5cab7e0c315254f5106 Hello list, I've seen some discussion of hard disks on this list recently, but I didn't notice any reference to Samsung Spinpoint F3 disks. I have two of these in my workstation; if I were thinking of adding 3 more to make a more robust system, what advice would I receive? -- Rgds Peter