What I've noticed through quite a number of drive purchases over the last
few years is that what is far more important than the manufacturer is the
"series" of drive you buy. Seagate has at least two "series" of drive. WD
may have 3, although I can't remember for sure at the moment.
What will identify them for you is the difference in price/warranty for the
drive. Comparing drives of identical size from Seagate , you'll find "NS"
series "enterprise grade" drives for some models which carry a significantly
longer warranty (and higher price) then their "consumer" grade drives.
Similarly, WD has "green", "black" and "blue"(?) series drives.
With the Seagates, there's a noticeable difference in noise and run
temperature between the NS grade drives and the consumer grade drives, with
the NS running cooler and quieter--a reflection of their better build
quality. It's much the same with the WD drives, in my experience.
At the office, where we need a drive in any user's machine almost only for
the OS, we use very inexpensive, consumer grade disks. User data is stored
on a server, with redundancy. Failure in one doesn't really matter; we just
replace it with a previously imaged disk of whatever size we have at hand.
At home, I use the enterprise grade disks, where I'd prefer to get as much
run-time out of them as possible.
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Scott Gomez
On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 14:17, Jim Nichols <jhnichols@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Chuck,
>
> My C drive is the original 80GB drive, and is 6 yrs old. If I replace it,
> what is the currently preferred manufacturer, and what software would you
> use to clone the drive? Do you open up the case and connect the new drive
> to a cable and clone it that way, or do it over a USB connection?
>
> The last HD I bought was WD, and it seems to be fine. It is my external
> eSATA photo drive.
>
> Jim Nichols
> Tullahoma, TN USA
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Chuck Norcutt" <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "Olympus Camera Discussion" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2011 3:16 PM
> Subject: Re: [OM] Strictly OT: System Crash
>
>
> > Sounds like an "ordinary" disk I/O error... one of the only 1 in 10**14
> > bits (or some such) that are eventually due to plague you. I suspect
> > (but don't know) that the flurry of disk I/O activity upon reboot was
> > probably the NTFS file system trying to figure out what was wrong with
> > itself and correct it if possible. You don't say what you did to
> > eventually recover but I suppose it doesn't matter if you're now up and
> > running.
> >
> > If your disk drive is about 3 years old or more I'd replace it on the
> > grounds of a cheap insurance policy. Get a new drive and clone the old
> > before it's too late. In general I have found that my drives last at
> > least 3 years and are generally technically obsoleted before they wear
> > out. But I did have a 6 month old 1TB Seagate drive (used as my primary
> > images storage) give up the ghost within the past two weeks or
> > therabouts. But it was kind enough to tell me it was failing, or, more
> > specifically, that it was likely to fail at some unknown time in the
> > future. Apparently the correctable read error rate had risen to an
> > unacceptable level and the S.M.A.R.T system intervened and advised me to
> > replace the drive. Had it been a RAID drive it would have automatically
> > rebuilt a replacement. First time I've ever seen a S.M.A.R.T. system
> > message and intervention.
> >
> > Chuck Norcutt
> >
> >
> > On 6/8/2011 2:51 PM, Jim Nichols wrote:
> >> Strictly OT, but I have a question. I was copying some files to a CD
> >> this morning, and, while the CD was being finalized, to enable it to
> >> be used by others, my Windows XP system crashed. A DOS screen came
> >> up that I have never seen before. I shut down and rebooted, but the
> >> HD just kept showing steady activity. I tried restore points back to
> >> a week earlier, but they all failed. Has anyone encountered anything
> >> like this?
> >>
> >> After many attempts at restarting, I am finally up and running again.
> >> I have created a new restore point, just in case.
> >>
> >> After almost two hours, I am a WRECK!
> >>
> >> Jim Nichols Tullahoma, TN USA
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