I used to buy Seagate drives for their 5 year warranty. However with
the capacities increasing like they are the 5 vs 3 years doesn't
really matter as much. Out of the 4 Seagate drives (2 160GB and 2
320GB) in my server that are 2.5 years old, the one is already showing
13 reallocated sectors. This might be due to non Barracuda drives
being certified for only 8 hours a day.

Recently I added have 5 Hitachi Deskstar TB drives in two different
machines which have been working great with mdadm in RAID 1 and 5. I
actually bought these after using 6 Hitachi Ultrastar TB drives in my
work's new Dell 2950 server. The server is setup in a 2 drive RAID 1
and a 4 drive RAID 5 for data archival and has worked flawlessly.

The Hitachi's are in the same price range as the Seagate Barracuda's
and offer 24/7 runtime and a 1 in 10^15 error rate vs 10^14 for
Seagate.

Any reason you are using RAID 0 for your server? Normally when I think
of a server reliability comes to mind and RAID 0 doesn't offer any.
I'm assumming you make nightly or weekly backups?

Ryan

On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 8:12 AM, Henry, Andrew [off-list ref] wrote: