Re: hardware recommendation

On Tue, 2022-06-28 at 13:21 -0400, Robert Huff wrote:
> 
>         A disk drive on one of my machines is dying.
>         I'd like to replace it with a _reliable_ (the old one lasted
> 10+
> years at moderate loads) consumer-grade SATA II or higher drive of at
> least 500 gbytes.
>         Any particular product lines getting consistantly good
> reviews?

If you want disks for 24/7:

HGST Ultrastar (you probably can't beat their price at 2TB)
WD Gold

WD used to make some "enterprise grade" which, IIRC, were called RE-
something, in that size.  If you can still find one, you could go for
that.  I got two of them like 14 years ago and none of them failed yet,
though I'm not using them much anymore because they're so small.  (I
think they are now system disks in my backup server because they're
reliable and more than large enough, which is only used once in a while
... together with 6 HGST Ultrastars which I bought used years ago, also
no failures yet)

If you want SSDs: go for Intel.

>         And what should I avoid like flesh-eating bacteria?

anything Seagate, for any use case, they die like flies

WD Red tend to be annoyingly slow and their failure rate isn't so great