<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>Western Digital. I used to like Seagate too.</span></div><div><br></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; "><div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; "><font size="2" face="Arial"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> matti <mathew_2000@yahoo.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> sgvlug@sgvlug.org<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Sunday, May 29, 2011 12:41 PM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> [SGVLUG] HDD reliability<br></font><br>
<br>What brands/models do you prefer???<br><br>so, looking a bit more at HDDs got me to researching reliability issues a bit<br><br>Seagate didn't do too well in the review<br>( man, I used to like them a lot.. )<br>http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/hdd-reliability-storelab,2681.html<br><br>a google labs paper from USENIX's FAST 07 conference:<br>http://labs.google.com/papers/disk_failures.pdf <br><br>they don't want to mention brands tho..<br><br>so, what do you prefer?<br><br>thanks<br>matti<br><br><br><br></div></div></div></body></html>