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 /<brian@snaptek.com>/* wrote:
>
>
> From: Brian Cluff <brian@snaptek.com>
> Subject: Re: Ot hard drive stress test
> To: "Main PLUG discussion list" <plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
> 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 <alex@crackpot.org
> </mc/compose?to=alex@crackpot.org>
> > <mailto:alex@crackpot.org </mc/compose?to=alex@crackpot.org>>> 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
> >
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