>>15
Thanks for sharing your insight. My experience with hard disks is:
Seagate Barracuda: Never had one die, though I'm not 100% happy with my second latest one (160 business gigabytes, 7200.9 Barracuda SATA), gets hot and read errors go high under heavy activity (defragmenting) for an hour.
Western Digital: I didn't own enough units to say, but I have a very good image of it.
Hitachi DeskStar: Never tried any, but I have a good image of it. Though it's expensive.
Samsung: Dies in about 5 years, though I'm still using two Samsungs which are both 10 years old. There was a third one (same model) who died just a few months ago. I'm overall happy with the ones I got, but it was 8-12 years ago, I don't know about the new ones.
Maxtor/Seagate DiamondMax: Dies like Aeris, and it takes 2-5 years to die. Every Maxtor I had died while it was still in use. I have a collection of dead Maxtors decorating my room.
Fujitsu: FUCKING PIECES OF SHIT, FAIL ENSURED WITHIN A YEAR. I saw like 5 of them. 4 died within a year, 1 lasted like 4. Terrible, I never saw hardware this bad. And I could tell you about big ass makers of big ass blade servers with big ass prices who use these pieces of shit. They fail all the time, the fuckers. They usually last 2-3 months.
>>17
old Fujitsus
Old? In MY Fujitsu? Wait, you mean 6 months. That's old for Fujitsu.
Also, please talk about ratios; you said 15 WDs dies vs. 10 Maxtors, but how many of each did you have in the first place?