Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2020 14:01:25 +0100 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: doug@fledge.watson.org Cc: doug@safeport.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What is the "better / best " method to multi-boot different OSes natively WITHOUT VirtualBox(es) ? Message-ID: <20201028140125.2e85379f.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.21.9999.2010272340090.72530@fledge.watson.org> References: <CALMiprbGBaSJQUAA=1HDZAjvsVNK7dqB_5mBb5DKzV16F3hxHg@mail.gmail.com> <20201024123148.4929fb9e.freebsd@edvax.de> <alpine.BSF.2.21.9999.2010272340090.72530@fledge.watson.org>
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On Tue, 27 Oct 2020 23:57:05 +0000 (UTC), doug@safeport.com wrote: > I would be interested in opinions on the best hard disks. I agree here you > get what you pay for. I have two NAS appliances with Western Digital. On > the older one two disks have gone bad in what seems to me not that long. Again, depends. :-) As the hard disk manufacturers meanwhile have bought each other, there is little actual choice, despite many different brand names. With WD, I've always had great results (live long, work good). In the past, I also used Seagate and Toshiba. The last one, who bought Hitachi, who bought IBM, was the one with the less impressive results, especially for 2.5" laptop disks. Of course, this is not a problem anymore, as I prefer to use SSDs there. Hard disks still have their place in _mass_ storage systems. Probably WD and Seagate are good to use. Maybe the following statistics are interesting to you: https://www.backblaze.com/b2/hard-drive-test-data.html https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-hard-drive-stats-q3-2020/ https://www.backblaze.com/blog/category/cloud-storage/hard-drive-stats/ BackBlaze offers a lot of such data. Always see this in relation to your own workload and use cases. You can also see the statistics archives in order to see how things might have changed for particular brands. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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