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 1SSFie-0001h3-Pk for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 09 May 2012 22:50:53 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6AB04E0995; Wed, 9 May 2012 22:50:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-lb0-f181.google.com (mail-lb0-f181.google.com [209.85.217.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3BD68E075F for ; Wed, 9 May 2012 22:49:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: by lbbgk8 with SMTP id gk8so701996lbb.40 for ; Wed, 09 May 2012 15:49:08 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:from:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=32EzJZoRYoLaoiifjGsKqHyIhg7YyhmwLImgQPlcy7c=; b=jMxMDoBsLofHWPzwWmic9oNIlP+H03oQhmkMzGpxnW7RONVQX3wdv4j47e1BApjazH YtxIlcwHM7k8UOAuLlVcvYPZFW94NKMJfM5TSKwYuThUFGV2jaTjR2W+aUNRBky3zVZz 2AmhRnA6xC9DJV3mEzNJROG1dx7xb+smLX4FXxv+BZCOvpWUZp3cJCrsw2yeQWTlb8V/ e0YIM2+MeRa77ywT8xYIht0tRg+4mZjUX141VZzSOPGDGTIYTVT5ry+GErpiM7ko5eS0 qR9vTUFjmDa0cDtQy2CeZ3bCp/RmGT2k61RPudmBioZCKAy14ES4Rtmueh1oHFPGjGPl WydQ== Received: by 10.112.28.230 with SMTP id e6mr872033lbh.34.1336603748043; Wed, 09 May 2012 15:49:08 -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 10.112.35.108 with HTTP; Wed, 9 May 2012 15:48:46 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4FAAEEB4.6090800@gmail.com> References: <4FAA2F0D.8080900@gmail.com> <20120509112543.6021e1f8@khamul.example.com> <4FAA3E79.5010007@gmail.com> <20120509232806.495276ed@khamul.example.com> <4FAAEEB4.6090800@gmail.com> From: Paul Hartman Date: Wed, 9 May 2012 17:48:46 -0500 X-Google-Sender-Auth: mIyIlSMCK-8jvFCKnn6cjs86Ghg Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Are those "green" drives any good? To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 4d6b6cbc-2ac0-493f-8f34-5b8b46543a67 X-Archives-Hash: 6dc04811babccf2dd4e4ef57e9ebbc35 On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 5:24 PM, Dale wrote: > =A0It doesn't matter what brand you go with Especially true since there are only 2 companies actually making consumer hard drives anymore: WD and Seagate. Both of them seem to know what they are doing, for the most part... Some hard drives fail at the beginning of their life. All hard drives fail at the end of their life. :)