Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
Hi, If you have an 80GB ATA disk that you think is terrific, could you post it? Checking http://www.storagereview.com/ is not conclusive regarding MTTF. My current Maxtor 6Y080P0 is a year and a half old, doing good. My SAMSUNG SP0802N is 6 months old and failing.
Thanks for all your answers. I guess my trackrecord is average.Indeed the HDD is the weakest link in the system chain as one of you pointed out: my HP Deskjet Plus is 15 years old and running fine!
Reason for 80GB: there is absolutely no need for anything bigger in my case.I am faithful on the backups. Of course that means CD-RW's with mondo. And that means that I can recover all I need immediately, but not everything if both disks go.
I am always watching now for signs of breakup. smartctl does a good job. Not perfectly: better to tail kern.log on my other screen: that shows dma being turned off and the I/O errors from the kernel.
I am leaning now to a Seagate because of the 5 year warranty and a WD. H