Hard Drive Brand

I am looking for a 3 drive 36 gig 80 pin hot swappable Raid 5 set of hard
drives and was wondering if anyone has any thoughts on drive brands. Seagate
Cheetah, Maxtor, Dell? It will be running in a Dell Poweredge 2600 server.
The server will be running Win2003 server and SQL 2000 server. I am looking
for reliability. Also looking for a reliable vendor. CDW seems to have good
prices on these.Hi Jon,
Why not go for DELL spares, when u want to use them for
DELL Machine?. IBM HD's are reliable. But i wont suggest it
If your Dell Machine is under warranty or AMC.
At a point if some Technical problem arise, VENDOR A may
blame VENDOR B and vice-versa for the problem & u have to
just watch them! . I already experienced such problems In
my early stages.
Also you might have to post your Query in relevant forums
for better suggestions.
HTH
Regards
Thirumal
Sys.Admin
www.sstil.com
>--Original Message--
>I am looking for a 3 drive 36 gig 80 pin hot swappable
Raid 5 set of hard
>drives and was wondering if anyone has any thoughts on
drive brands. Seagate
>Cheetah, Maxtor, Dell? It will be running in a Dell
Poweredge 2600 server.
>The server will be running Win2003 server and SQL 2000
server. I am looking
>for reliability. Also looking for a reliable vendor. CDW
seems to have good
>prices on these.
>
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