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Subject: [Leica] Seeking Hard Drive Advice
From: jhnichols at lighttube.net (Jim Nichols)
Date: Sun, 4 Jul 2010 10:33:27 -0500
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Thanks, Dennis.

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dennis" <dennis at hale-pohaku.com>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
Sent: Sunday, July 04, 2010 4:43 AM
Subject: Re: [Leica] Seeking Hard Drive Advice


>I would add the 1TB Samsung Spinpoint to this list. Samsung has come on 
>strong and I think as good as any of these. They all seem to have their 
>downs, and back up again.
>
> The customer reviews at Newegg on this drive are about as good as it gets. 
> I have one as in internal drive for over a year now.
>
> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822152185
>
>
>
> Pasvorn Boonmark wrote:
>> Jim,
>>
>> I don't think you have too many choices.
>> - WD
>> - Seagate
>> - Hitachi/IBM
>>
>> IMHO, anything below 1T bytes is not too bad on reliability.  I think the
>> key is to always backup.
>> Are you thinking of running RAID configuration?
>>
>> I cc imagestore, which I think this belongs there.
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 10:20 AM, Jim Nichols 
>> <jhnichols at lighttube.net>wrote:
>>
>>
>>> I need to add an additional hard drive to my Dell Dimension 4700.  I am
>>> seeking advice on the reliability of available SATA drives in the range 
>>> of
>>> 250 to 640GB.  I have used WD and Seagate Barracuda drives in the past, 
>>> but
>>> find disturbing comments on the web on the reliability of their present
>>> products.
>>>
>>> I'm not out for blazing speed or a giant size drive.  But, reliability 
>>> is
>>> uppermost in my mind.  Cool operation and low noise would follow.
>>>
>>> Jim Nichols
>>> Tullahoma, TN USA
>>>
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