atw Posted January 10, 2006 Report Share Posted January 10, 2006 I've lost 4 lacie HDs in the 18 mos (200 gig size). I use xp professional.just wondering what others use for storage and seeding of torrent files.thanks in advance Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tumu Posted January 10, 2006 Report Share Posted January 10, 2006 Try 5400 rpm models. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted January 10, 2006 Report Share Posted January 10, 2006 I heart Maxtor. Of course, Seagate bought them now. So, I'd say a Maxtor, or a Seagate. </3 WD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
splintax Posted January 10, 2006 Report Share Posted January 10, 2006 Why would you possibly want to use a 5400rpm HDD? Are they more reliable or something?I say if you're concerned about performance, get a SCSI drive or some of those 10krpm drives. Or RAID 1.. (I think that is the one that stripes data across drives).If you're concerned about reliability, get RAID 0.. (I think that is the one that mirrors all data onto both/all drives in the array).If you want both, get RAID 1+0.. where you have 2 or more RAID 1 arrays, mirrored onto each other.Yeah, I think I got the RAID numbers wrong, someone correct me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sixshot Posted January 10, 2006 Report Share Posted January 10, 2006 Since the choices are getting smaller, it's either Maxtor for best bang for the buck or Seagate for quieter operation. WD is also good but you may get hit or miss with it since I'm experiencing a strange phenomenon on mine.As for the RAID definitions, RAID 0 is striping where information is split amongst 2 or more drives. RAID 1 is mirroring. And 0+1 is just a combination of the two. RAID 5 would require 3 drives minimum to function and uses parity bits for drive recovery. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
splintax Posted January 10, 2006 Report Share Posted January 10, 2006 OK, so switch 1 with 0 in what I said. I really have never experienced any brand being better than any other. IMO, the best idea is to go with the brand with the best warranty. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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