Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2016 23:39:58 +0100 From: RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Best kind of hard drive for heavy use? Message-ID: <20160914233958.3ae5d3ae@gumby.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <64887.128.135.52.6.1473793846.squirrel@cosmo.uchicago.edu> References: <42.56.05022.D3A48D75@dnvrco-oedge02> <64887.128.135.52.6.1473793846.squirrel@cosmo.uchicago.edu>
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On Tue, 13 Sep 2016 14:10:46 -0500 (CDT) Valeri Galtsev wrote: > I usually use HGST (formerly Hitachi, before that IBM); - He filled > and sealed ones sound really good (we will know statistics on them > some 5-7 years down the road, so now we can only guess). Personally I wouldn't want to risk it until then. These drives rely on the helium atmosphere to work correctly, and helium is notoriously difficult to contain in the long-term because it's a monatomic gas.
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