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 Post subject: Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 320Gb Reliability
PostPosted: April 23rd, 2008, 2:35 
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Any of you drive experts have any thoughts on the reliability of this drive? I'm building a four-disc RAID 5 array in my new Skulltrail workstation with them.


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 Post subject: Re: Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 320Gb Reliability
PostPosted: April 23rd, 2008, 4:53 
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If I were I would consider another brand.


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 Post subject: Re: Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 320Gb Reliability
PostPosted: April 23rd, 2008, 14:10 
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patsphone2 wrote:
Any of you drive experts have any thoughts on the reliability of this drive? I'm building a four-disc RAID 5 array in my new Skulltrail workstation with them.


You'd be either crazy or naive to use Seagate hard drives for anything involving data storage.

Samsung 500GB drives are what you need.

As far as I am concerned, they are the best drives on the planet.

Next month will be different, but that is the case now. In my opinion.


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 Post subject: Re: Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 320Gb Reliability
PostPosted: April 23rd, 2008, 14:37 
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What happened to Seagate's build quality? Before my dropped drive debacle Id never had a Seagate die on me. This array is being used for video storage in my graphics workstation.


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 Post subject: Re: Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 320Gb Reliability
PostPosted: April 24th, 2008, 9:36 
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Relax
These are holy wars :)

For example I could say Samsung 500GB is sucks, would you beleive me?

But anyway I wouldn't recommend you 7200.11 320GB drives they are still not stable, if you want Seagate - take 7200.10
If you really want 7200.11 take 1TB (it's more stable as I see) do not use 320Gb or 500GB

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 Post subject: Re: Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 320Gb Reliability
PostPosted: April 24th, 2008, 23:01 
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Thanks for the advice. I had avoided the 7200.10 because I just had one die on me. It cost me $2300 to recover.


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