[ubuntu-uk] Hard drive- Bad sectors

[John Stevenson]

On 16 April 2010 15:26, David King <linuxman at avoura.com> wrote:

>
>
> Alan Lord (News) wrote:
> >
> > I have tended toward Samsung (1st choice) or Hitachi (2nd) for HDDs for
> > years now. Not had one every fail - yet. (But I still take nightly
> backups)
> >
> > Al
> >
> >
> I have had a Hitachi DeskStar go bad recently. They are even nicknamed
> DeathStar due to a high failure rate years ago when the brand was still
> owned by IBM.
>
> Samsung drives have so far been good for me.
>
>
> david
>  <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/>
>

I have gone for Seagate for the last 5 years and have not had any failure
(touches lots of wood).  I intend to upgrade my oldest drives within the
year as they are too small, noisier and more power hungry than recent
Seagate, which on the whole have been a lot quieter.

Except on my netbook, I use raid everywhere, but should do more about back
up (I keep telling myself that raid != backup).  Most of the important stuff
is either on raid or on Ubuntu one cloud storage.

-- 
John Stevenson
jr0cket.com
leanagilemachine.com
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