External HDD

[Simon]

Only a solid-state storage could provide such reliability, RAID is a must if you
want fault tolerance, otherwise.

-Simon


On Thu, 8 Feb 2007 19:27:37 +0300, Andrew Pantyukhin wrote:

>On 2/8/07, Fluffles <etc at fluffles.net> wrote:
>> Andrew Pantyukhin wrote:
>> > Hmm, Samsung 3,5" drives are rather cheap these days,
>> > look like a bargain to me. I remember they were regarded
>> > as a bit slow, but stable some years ago, wonder if that
>> > is still true...
>>
>> The Samsung T166 500GB drive not only has the highest GB-per-euro/dollar
>> ratio but is also the fastest drive in terms of Sequential Transfer Rate
>> (STR); beating even the WD Raptor; though i have to say random I/O
>> performance is much more important than STR.

>What I'm worried the most about is reliability. I would
>settle for 10Mb/sec performance if I had a guarantee it
>would work 24x7x365 for 10 years straight...
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