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On Wed, 16 Nov 2011 11:09:01 -0500, X ` Man
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I had a choice of drives for my server, so I bought four of these:

Seagate Constellation ES 2 TB Internal hard drive - 300 MBps - 7200 rpm


Seagate/Maxtor is a pretty good drive


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The problem with Apple, at least in former days, was you had to buy the
drive from Apple at excessive price. Same frikken drive as on a PC but with
a unique identifier in the SCSI packet. I designed Maxtor drives and they
were the same exact drive except for the identifier. The problem with WD
drives was getting them to be reliable at 7200 rpm. As Jim McCoy, Chairman
of Maxtor when I worked there, stated, anyone can build a 3600 rpm drive,
hard to handle the head flying and control at 7200 rpm. Lots of turbulence
at the extra rpm.