Hard Drives: if you were me…

[David Roth weiss]

Rennie,

Maxtor continues to operate as a separate entity from Seagate for the time being, and their Maxline series of SATA drives continue to receive the highest performance ratings. Seagate will most likely learn what they can from Maxtor’s R&D and then phase them out over time as Maxtor did a few years back when it acquired Quantum.

DRW

[Kent Kajino]

I once made a fatal mistake of getting WD Caviar drives to build a SATA RAID tower.

Caviars have a long error recovery cycle that interferes with RAID operation. Their RE line is what you’re supposed to get if you want WD.