Velociraptor vs SSD

[Shadow703793]

Sorry for hijacking the thread: But, any one here have personal experiens with the SeaGate ES type HDDs?

 

[cjl]

The Barracuda ES are excellent reliability, but somewhat aged. They are the enterprise equivalent of the 7200.10.

The Barracuda ES.2 is not great. It has the same reliability issues that plagued the 7200.11.

The Constellation ES (brand new) should be better - it is based on the same platform as 7200.12, except modified for the different demands of nearline use.

 

[JackNaylorPE]

Personally, I suspect a lot of 14-year-olds have terabytes of downloaded music and video files, while lots of staid oldtimers are accumulating literally dozens of e-mails...

I still have old DOS utilities saved that I downloaded back in the days of 1200 baud.....even an offline reader which we used back then cause we paid by the minute for being online.

Jack