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Subject: Re: ide drive dying?
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Mike Dresser <mdresser_l@windsormachine.com>
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On Fri, 2002-09-06 at 16:26, Mike Dresser wrote:
> eBAY, and buy yourself a new drive.  You can pickup 80 gig drives for
> around 80 bucks nowadays.  I used to recommend Maxtors, until they said
> they're cutting their warranty to one year from three.  I don't know what
> to use anymore.

At current drive density and reliabilities - raid. Software raid setups
are so cheap there is little point not running RAID on IDE nowdays

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