From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EBD5413877A for ; Thu, 26 Jun 2014 17:23:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6BD2FE0C8A; Thu, 26 Jun 2014 17:22:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-pd0-f172.google.com (unknown [209.85.192.172]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 6946BE0C84 for ; Thu, 26 Jun 2014 17:21:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-pd0-f172.google.com with SMTP id w10so3314170pde.3 for ; Thu, 26 Jun 2014 10:21:04 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=OE8Rp8rxPNp17dXMvMchsbQxLmYk1nPdA5BG6ENAiug=; b=dJj/rb2XrSqna3ASDTxpH9WrXf5ikoziizLNy0HLP028N03G2uYLdACCtpf6nNtlZB yU3TEOD7UxE3vVc4lMzN7glkrtXXKFBRRXpoidKW6RZ4wHoczTCo+qGvytl4JODg0dOt 0IIeKVP6MimYSqo2WNZ0t3XCroQbcH9bXVxXrOJuIJIQW8XkoTCFgP0ac6XI7ED0VETK 8z0fBKdHw8yDmE7xFgf51dGWt+cNJnzZf1fHfZPwz6J4/UaS+Nw65Plf73LqtrD1K9Gz yFI1IjMopb6By0cDwHUMhtEiyHXDotIhB6qSBd3gJpRJmB6d51fLrC+DGt2XJqAUQJCW EnRg== X-Received: by 10.68.134.198 with SMTP id pm6mr23740349pbb.9.1403803264125; Thu, 26 Jun 2014 10:21:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.247.60] (76-10-184-21.dsl.teksavvy.com. [76.10.184.21]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id gg4sm10967630pbb.12.2014.06.26.10.21.03 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Thu, 26 Jun 2014 10:21:03 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <53AC567D.8090002@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2014 10:21:01 -0700 From: Daniel Frey User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.4.0 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] smartctrl drive error @60% References: <53AA050F.4070907@gmail.com> <49620f42-d9c3-43b1-9f01-1250e52eb950@email.android.com> <53AA587F.8090300@gmail.com> <53AA7D11.6070909@thegeezer.net> <53AA7EF5.2000903@gmail.com> <53AAFEEE.7020508@googlemail.com> <53AB03C3.9000601@googlemail.com> <53AB7465.1080100@gmail.com> <53AB997B.8080304@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <53AB997B.8080304@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: c1b4fd2f-e04c-466e-a265-b6b541583fb4 X-Archives-Hash: 0d4b4021f5aaed053e3ff08d7cafb5ec On 06/25/2014 08:54 PM, Dale wrote: > Curious. I hope I don't start a flame war here. I have had WD, Seagate > and I think there is a Samsung here somewhere, may be the one that is > rolling over on its back now. The one drive that failed a few years ago > was a WD drive. That said, all the other WD drives I have had just got > to small to really use, and slow when SATA came out. I'm partial to WD > and Seagate still since I got good long term use out of those. Based on > your experience, you tend to be of the same opinion? > Flame war on a mailing list? Nah, will never happen. :-) We have over 100 workstations at work and so far the WD Blue drives fail the most, Seagate second, Samsung third. At home once I get a bad run of one manufacturer I usually get ticked off and find another to switch to. I originally used WD, then Maxtor, then Seagate, then Samsung, then WD again... where I am now. Dan