[mythtv-users] > 1TB Hard Drive Recommendations

[Calvin Dodge]

On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 12:11 PM, Bobby Gill <brownitus at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 1:36 PM, Paul Bender <pebender at san.rr.com> wrote:
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>> 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).
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>> 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.

I went with the recommendation (Hitachi) of the people who lease
dedicated servers to my employer, and haven't had a problem yet.

Calvin Dodge