Okay, Thanks! ------------------------ Keith Smith --- On Wed, 5/19/10, Eric Shubert wrote: From: Eric Shubert Subject: Re: Ot hard drive stress test To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us Date: Wednesday, May 19, 2010, 5:43 PM They're the more expensive ones. ;) Seriously though, for WD they're the Black labeled ones. I don't know for the other manufacturers. keith smith wrote: > > > If I go to a place like http://www.newegg.com/Store/Category.aspx?Category=15&name=Hard-Drives  How do I know which drives are made for servers? > > ------------------------ > Keith Smith > > --- On *Wed, 5/19/10, Brian Cluff //* wrote: > > >     From: Brian Cluff >     Subject: Re: Ot hard drive stress test >     To: "Main PLUG discussion list" >     Date: Wednesday, May 19, 2010, 5:20 PM > >     I'll third on western digital, seagates are also pretty good, but >     whatever you do don't even start to consider Maxtor.  They seem to have >     a near 100% failure rate.  It's not if they are going to fail, but when. > >     Also don't go with any hard drive manufacturers budget line or low end >     drive, try and go for drives that are made for server.  They aren't all >     that much more, but seem to have much lower failure rates. > >     Brian Cluff > >     On 05/19/2010 03:14 PM, Shawn Badger wrote: >      > +2 on Bonnie++ >      > >      > I also tend to like the Western digital line for IDE/SATA drives. >     I have >      > had a few bad ones (out of hundreds), but they tend to run well >     for me. >      > >      > >      > >      > On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 3:09 PM, Alex Dean       >      > >> wrote: >      > >      > >      >     On May 19, 2010, at 5:07 PM, Nadim Hoque wrote: >      > >      >         Hey, >      > >      >         I am buying a new hard drive for my computer and I was >     wondering >      >         what are some good hard drive stress test and how long >     should I >      >         let it run for. I also do not mind what platform >     (windows, mac, >      >         or linux) it will run on. Speaking of hard drives, which >     brand >      >         do u guys recommend? >      > >      > >      >     Bonnie++ is a disk benchmarking tool, but you can use it for >     stress >      >     testing as well.  Pretty easy to compile on Linux.  I'm not >     sure if >      >     it works on OSX or windows. >      > >      >     alex >      > >      >     --------------------------------------------------- >      >     PLUG-discuss mailing list - >     PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >      >      >          > >      >     To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >      >     http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >      > >      > >      > >      > >      > --------------------------------------------------- >      > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >      >      > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >      > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > >     --------------------------------------------------- >     PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >      >     To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >     http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss