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On 2/8/07, Fluffles <etc@fluffles.net> wrote:
> Andrew Pantyukhin wrote:
> > Hmm, Samsung 3,5" drives are rather cheap these days,
> > look like a bargain to me. I remember they were regarded
> > as a bit slow, but stable some years ago, wonder if that
> > is still true...
>
> The Samsung T166 500GB drive not only has the highest GB-per-euro/dollar
> ratio but is also the fastest drive in terms of Sequential Transfer Rate
> (STR); beating even the WD Raptor; though i have to say random I/O
> performance is much more important than STR.

What I'm worried the most about is reliability. I would
settle for 10Mb/sec performance if I had a guarantee it
would work 24x7x365 for 10 years straight...