Ot hard drive stress test

[ChasM Marshall]

Hiya,

  I'm gonna fourth (or fifth) it for the WDC hard drives.
The best recommendation is the "Raptor" line. They are 10,000 rpm discs.

  For crazy fun I got two of these, back when 70Gb was the biggest size.
I used mobo-based firmware and made them into a single RAID-Zero stripe set.  
Performance stripe.  Like, crazy-wow load and startup times.  Through-put, put through!
  I did a Win XP pro installation and the MS software didn't even notice.
'Twas all a giant C: of 140Gb.  That was years ago, and the installation is still fine.
Now, the big size for Raptors is 'round 170Gb each, I haven't checked lately.

  All sytems, Linux or MS or Mac are limited by the HD speed bottleneck.
It's nice to see how easy it is to almost DOUBLE their throughput.

  Also, Hitachi drives are a good second choice.  These guys bought all the IBM patents
and research and took over all the IBM production sites.  Personally I feel the
technological advantage that the U.S. held, has left the building. 
Asian production will eventually (maybe already!) outstrip even the WDC products.

  I too have seen misery from Maxtor.  They just don't have production quality control.
Fujitsu is the same way.  I'm saddened every time I see a PC with these installed.
Future misery in these brands.

  (-:  Chas.M.  :-)

> From: cryptworks at gmail.com
> Date: Thu, 20 May 2010 16:24:00 -0700
> Subject: Re: Ot hard drive stress test
> To: nadimhoque at gmail.com; plug-discuss at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> 
> I have been preferential with WD and Hitachi HDD's from when i ran
> support for a whitebox vendor (server and desktop) the lowest number
> of issues/RMA's were these drives.
> 
> On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 3:07 PM, Nadim Hoque <nadimhoque at gmail.com> 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?
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