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 1RJWKu-0000xk-Pf for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 27 Oct 2011 20:14:01 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F0DDF21C117; Thu, 27 Oct 2011 20:13:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ww0-f53.google.com (mail-ww0-f53.google.com [74.125.82.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D2FEB21C0EC for ; Thu, 27 Oct 2011 20:12:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wwi36 with SMTP id 36so4386711wwi.10 for ; Thu, 27 Oct 2011 13:12:11 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:from:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:to:content-type; bh=OonIeGOWCUzZJCjo0auNN+fQTqjkrmRgvuj2THoBu84=; b=Ydw6U3uYjf65kqYs22Eyczm6IJeBH50+56EyNsSHVPVVWbt43tvxkv/N+I1a9hMdzz k4+67LLbrISthh+xM4LPzRqi89eVbm8EQOm4MTRS+dcr2TIuSZIAHnMx8OCAoxmuYj9g +O959JYbSdTUo4ajFnAMKI/v1k0i5bTd4PqFs= Received: by 10.227.209.5 with SMTP id ge5mr18284206wbb.1.1319746331087; Thu, 27 Oct 2011 13:12:11 -0700 (PDT) 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 Sender: paul.hartman@gmail.com Received: by 10.227.27.68 with HTTP; Thu, 27 Oct 2011 13:11:51 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <4EA9130A.6070807@gmail.com> <2251997.4gxL5gE8u7@localhost> <4EA9952A.4030909@gmail.com> From: Paul Hartman Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 15:11:51 -0500 X-Google-Sender-Auth: EcWHpgyROzhxv_QvJyd8i8KNE3Q Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Hard drive RPMs and data speed. To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 2541241a3ca034f653753a6bf7f44cfb On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 12:51 PM, Michael Mol wrote: > Just don't buy a SAMSUNG drive. I know, I know, everyone has their pet > "Don't Buy Hard Drives Made By $x" experience. On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 1:41 PM, Dale wrote: > I seem to have good luck with WD and Maxtor myself. Seagate and Western Digital have bought (or are in process of buying) all of the other HDD manufacturers, except for Toshiba. Seagate = Conner, Quantum, Maxtor, Samsung Western Digital = Hitachi (= IBM) Toshiba still stands alone, as far as I know, but they don't compete in the consumer HDD market so, for your purposes, they don't exist (unless you're building a large and expensive SAS array in your house). :)