Which 160-180 GB ATA disk is reliable and fast ?

[Lanny Baron]

Hi Andreas,
Gee, I was just in Germany but forgot to look you up!

IBM does not make drives any more. They are all now Hitachi. Hitachi
Deskstar and Ultrastar.

I have had 0 problems with the new Hitachi Drives in our Servers. We have
lost only 2 drives (both SCSI) from Seagate.

Maxtor I would not touch with a 10 foot poll. WD has a problem with the
connector on our Servers. So we dont use them.

My suggestion is to use SATA. And then use Seagate Barracuda 7.

Hope this helps.

Regards,
Lanny


Andreas Klemm said:
> My current Seagate Disk has severe unrecoverable read errors.
> ad0: 76319MB <ST380021A> [155061/16/63] at ata0-master UDMA66
>
> Jun 14 22:11:22 titan kernel: ad0: READ command timeout tag=0 serv=0 -
> resetting
> Jun 14 22:11:23 titan kernel: ad0: ATAPI 00 00
> Jun 14 22:11:23 titan kernel: ad0: ATA 01 a5
> Jun 14 22:11:23 titan kernel: ad0: success setting UDMA33 on VIA 82C686A
> chip
> Jun 14 22:11:25 titan kernel: ad0: hard error cmd=read fsbn 115471868 of
> 115471868-115471871 status=51 error=40
> Jun 15 03:01:57 titan kernel: ad0: hard error cmd=read fsbn 115471868 of
> 115471868-115471871 status=51 error=40
> Jun 15 20:40:46 titan kernel: ad0: 76319MB <ST380021A> [155061/16/63] at
> ata0-master UDMA66
> Jun 15 20:40:46 titan kernel: ad0: hard error cmd=read fsbn 115471868 of
> 115471868-115471871 status=51 error=40
>
> Before using this Seagate Drive I had severe problems with
> 40GB IBM and Maxtor drives.
> They all worked for about 1/2-1 year and then failed quickly :-/
>
> I have to look for another drive now, but which one ?
> Do you have perhaps some background informations concerning
> the one or other drive ?
>
> IBM	IC35L180AVV207	185,2 GB  8,5/8192/7200  U-100 IDE  184.00 EUR
>         Deskstar 180 GXP
> Maxtor	6Y160P0		160,0 GB  9,4/8192/7200  U-133 IDE  164.00 EUR
> 	DiamondMax Plus 9
> Seagate	ST3160023A	160,0 GB  8,5/8192/7200  U-100 IDE  189.00 EUR
> 	Barracuda 7200.7
> W.Digit	WD1600JB	160,0 GB  8,9/8192/7200  U-100 IDE  189.00 EUR
> 	Caviar Special Edition
>
> In this link you'll see that the Seagate disk has a bad write
> performance compared to other drives like the IBM 180 GXP.
> 	http://www.ixbt-labs.com/articles2/seagate-barr7/
>
> I'll connect the drive to my on-board ATA interface which is
> only capable of UDMA-66.
>
> The drive should be in the 1st place reliable (don't want to replace
> my drives on a 6-12 month cycle anymore) and performance is also a matter.
>
> What's your recommendation ??
>
> Thanks
>
> 	Andreas ///
>
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