[mythtv-users] > 1TB Hard Drive Recommendations
Paul Bender
pebender at san.rr.com
Sat Oct 3 17:36:59 UTC 2009
John Finlay wrote:
> I recently tried to upgrade my storage with a Seagate LP 1.5TB hard
> drive but it started failing almost immediately. Shortly thereafter my 6
> month old 1TB western digital drive failed and I got a warranty
> replacement from WD which started failing after 2 weeks (another
> replacement is on the way). This experience and the problems I've seen
> others have with Seagate drives makes me wary of buying more WD or
> Seagate drives and thinking about trying other brands.
>
> I'm looking for recommendations on which >1TB drives would be reliable
> for mythtv storage.
Over the past decade, I have had Samsung, Seagate and WD drives fail.
However, since increasing the cooling of the my Myth backend's drives
(more fans blowing across the drives), I have had no problems (post hoc
ergo propter hoc).
Based on my experiences, I have concluded two things: (1) hard disk
reliability is about the same for all major vendors, and (2) RAID 1 is a
very good idea.
Currently, my backend has Seagate 750MB drives in RAID 1 for its
non-recording drives and Western Digital 2GB drives in RAID 1 for its
recording drives. So far, I have had no problems (including drive
problems). However, I am not so arrogant to assume that I will not have
disk problems, so I will continue to use a RAID 1 configuration.
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