[wplug] OT - word of warning on Maxtor 250GB drives

[Rick Reynolds]

I've been reading this thread with interest as I'm wanting to create a 
smallish (500 GB or so) backup server for my home network.  What's the 
group's current thinking on best bang-for-buck large drives?

Thanks,
Rick Reynolds
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Brian A. Seklecki wrote:

> On Mon, 13 Feb 2006, Moshe Katz-Hyman wrote:
>
>> This is why I was planning on picking up a few and running a software 
>> raid5
>> with a hotspare. :)
>>
>
> This all goes without saying.  Maxtor 250's are for mp3s.  Mp3s you 
> don't care about.
>
> Dell ships a lot of Maxtor SCSI and SATA in the mid-range boxes.  Of 
> course you're not going to run anything these days non-RAID, except 
> maybe backup slices.
>
> Replicate
> RAID
> Failover
> Backup
> Recover
> Distribute
> Deliver
>
> ~lava
>
>
>> Where have you seen these special running?
>>
>> Moshe
>>
>> On 2/13/06, Vanco, Don <don.vanco at agilysys.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Quite a few places are now blowing out these drives crazy-cheap (the
>>> ATA-100 and ATA-133 versions, both 8MB cache).  I have quite a few of
>>
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