Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Disk recommendations?

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

Peter Humphrey wrote:
>
> I'm just speculating at the moment, from a dabbler's point of view; what benefits
> would accrue from switching from RAID-1 to RAID-5 or above? And, in particular,
> what are the comparative virtues of the Samsung disks?
>
>    

I have one 750Gb Samsung drive that I have had at least a year.  So far, 
no problems and it is pretty fast.  It does what it is supposed to for a 
3Gbs/sec drive.  That said, it may die next week.  We all know how this 
works.  They work just fine until they die, usually with no warning or 
very little warning.

I might also add, I have a UPS and surge protection coming from the 
wall, plus surge and voltage protection built into the UPS.  I have yet 
to have a drive die so maybe all that does help.  I dunno.

I have several Western Digital drives, no problems so far although I 
don't like the green ones to much.

Just my $0.02 worth.

Dale

:-)  :-)