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In Reply to: RE: drive prices are back down posted by fmak on April 28, 2012 at 10:44:52
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I run mine 24/7 and have been for a few years. I have several friends who have been doing the same. I do take them out of their cases and have a fan blowing across them which keeps them cool to the touch.
I know my small sample is too few to be statistically significant but I'm happy with them. I've had several Western Digital fail. One was the controller and not the drive so when you do have one crap out it is worth swapping the controller to see if that fixes it.
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I've had good and bad luck with Seagate and Western Digital over the years. They've all had their ups and downs. I'm perfectly happy with my Seagate drives from the past few years.
Seagate and Western Digital are the dominant players in the business of spinning rust. The other two with minimal market share are Toshiba & Hitachi.... but WD is in the process of buying Hitachi's disk drive business.
That leaves Toshiba as the low volume odd man out.
Samsung's spinning rust division was recently acquired by Seagate.
IBM's HDD business was acquired by Hitachi almost 10 years ago.
Tony Lauck
"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar
Intel still builds SSDs. That said, the economies are becoming less favorable for the rusty contingent. Good riddance to them.
But it's still way cheaper to hook up terabytes of storage on spinning drives. I don't deny that consolidation has occured. It's just not the wave of the future.
Data storage in a cloud is inherenty compromised and insecure.
Also it's not fast enough yet for the majority.
I've been in telecom for thirty years. I can tell you for a fact that the providers want your data and your info as marketing assets.
If you think otherwise you are not well informed.
Caveat emptor, never pay an exploiter to exploit you.
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