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    Hard drive opinions?

    I need to buy 5 more 320GB hard drives for use on my 3ware 7500-8 RAID card. Currently my server has 2 Western Digital WD3200JB and a Seagate 7200.10 series with 16MB cache.

    Right now I'm looking at getting more of the seagate drives, but I wanted some opinions. Are there better drives for use in a RAID array? I figured it would be best if most or all of the drives were matching, and I like the 16MB cache of the Seagates.
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    Re: Hard drive opinions?

    Well, I just spent $430 and bought 5 of the Seagate drives. I'll post the results next week when everything is connected. Hopefully they last as long as the one I have now.

    Though I never liked how the SMART logs report huge numbers for "Hardware ECC Recovered" and Raw Read Error Rate"

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      Re: Hard drive opinions?

      Originally posted by Maxxarcade

      Though I never liked how the SMART logs report huge numbers for "Hardware ECC Recovered" and Raw Read Error Rate"

      Seagates seem to always do this!
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        Re: Hard drive opinions?

        SMART is just about useless.
        Ludicrous gibs!

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          Re: Hard drive opinions?

          Ya, the only thing I like about it, is being able to see the runtime hours of a drive, though even that isn't accurate

          I had two identical drives in the same system from the time they were new, and the power on hours read different amounts. Real accurate there

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