What Brand for RAID 0?

l3um · Mar 3, 2002

What hard drive brand do you recommend for a RAID 0 setup? Some personal experience would be appreciated also, thanks.

My computer is slower than molasses.Edited by l3um on 03/03/02 08:33 PM.

camieabz · Mar 3, 2002

Well this time from personal experience...IBM 60GXPs. 2 x 40Gb is my config.

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AMD_Man · Mar 3, 2002

I don't understand the question. What brand hard drives or RAID controller?

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Zlash · Mar 4, 2002

Ouch recommending ibm's after all the problems people have had with them.

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camieabz · Mar 4, 2002

How many people?

No one seemed to have problems with them until the Maxtor 740 thingy came out. I've never had any probs with them.

Neither have my customers.

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FatBurger · Mar 4, 2002

Only the 75GXPs had problems, the 60GXPs have so far been fine.

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Zlash · Mar 4, 2002

I've seen a couple people here and at anand with the same problems with 60's as 75's.

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FatBurger · Mar 4, 2002

Of course, but it's nowhere near as widespread.

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Zlash · Mar 4, 2002

Sure it is, compared to any other harddrive out there now it is widespread.

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l3um · Mar 5, 2002

EEK...I don't want it to crash suddenly in a RAID 0 setup. How are the Maxtor 60gigs?

What's this?...ERROR ERROR ERROR...*CRASH & BURN*

FatBurger · Mar 5, 2002

No, problems with the 60GXP aren't as bad.

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camieabz · Mar 5, 2002

Time for another poll...

C ya there.

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Zlash · Mar 5, 2002

Aren't as bad...lol.

Ok so you only have to RMA them twice a year instead of 4 times a year?

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FatBurger · Mar 5, 2002

Do you have any evidence that 60GXPs are commonly failing?

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Zlash · Mar 5, 2002

Wouldn't say common, but it's definately not rare like all good harddrives.

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Matisaro · Mar 5, 2002

Zslash, ill sum it up here.

The 75gxp sucked.

The 60gxp is perfectly fine, the 60gxp sells tons more than any other brand, hence, there is a higher amount of reported failures.

The 120gxp is flawless from what I hear, to damn [-peep-] bad IBM returned me 2 refurbished 75gxps for my rmaed 75gxp drives, some people were getting 60 gig 120gxps for the 45 gig 75gxps!

Oh well, raid em up, and torture them till they die, then rma once more, if you call ibm and complain, they will even pay shipping!

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BGates2B · Mar 5, 2002

I don't know, but I think Maxtors problem with the liquid bearing on the 7200 rpm drives is wide spread. I hear these drives have a lot of problems

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Lars_Coleman · Mar 5, 2002

Where are you reading this? I have only seen a few posts on this messageboard about a "potential" problem.

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Zlash · Mar 7, 2002

Some more stuff on 75 gxp and 60 gxp failures.

<A HREF="http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.cfm?catid=27&threadid=733618" target="_new">here</A>

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What Brand for RAID 0?

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