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Flurry of Hard Drive Reviews

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the truth-lies-and-magnetic-storage dept.

Sivar writes "After a long hiatus while setting up their new testbed, StorageReview.com has released a number of reviews of the latest hard drives, including Hitachi's Deskstar 7K500 which now occupies the top performance spot for desktop drives, the Seagate Barracuda 7200.9 which is the first shipping Serial ATA-II drive, the Seagate NL35 for backup servers and other "nearline" storage, and the Western Digital WD4000YR, which interestingly is actually based on their famous (and expensive) Raptor unit." Hitachi's SATA-II drive was also recently reviewed by BigBruin in case you missed it.

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  1. Re:lol what by CyricZ · · Score: 1, Funny

    I think it'd probably be okay if you made another account over there. Just try to keep your claims truthful. Suggesting that FreeBSD and Linux scale worse than Windows is sure to get your account banned, as such a claim is obviously false.

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  2. Re:Performance vs Noise by ZenShadow · · Score: 2, Funny
    I can't imagine there are very many people who are willing to pay extra for super silent hard drives.


    People would probably pay a lot of money for the guaranteed ability to fart super silently, however. :-)

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  3. Re:Testbed by ZenShadow · · Score: 2, Funny

    Windows is only as unstable as the administrator that's managing it.

    That said, many Windows administrators are notoriously unstable due to the low barrier to entry. That's one of the main reasons I prefer Linux on my servers for most applications. :-)

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  4. Re:Testbed by Tony+Hoyle · · Score: 2, Funny

    Administrators can be quite unstable.. especially if you're the 1000th user to ask "has the network crashed?"