Seagate Cheetah LVD or Quantum Atlas 10K ?

[handiman]

friends,

I'm in need of your opinion. Which U2W LVD hard disk is better ?

I'm concern of heat and reliability.

My present 2nd generation Seagate Cheetah 9Gig LVD is running fine, but I've heard of many scary comments re its heat problem.

Haven't try the Quantum Atlas 10K yet and would appreciate any owner's comment.

I'm working in an air-con room, and my casing got 2 fan, 1-in 1-out.

thanks. http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

[Stan]

Hi...

Just 3 letters: IBM
Check out the 9LZX series, specially the one with 4Mb cache: fast and VERY reliable.

Stan

[Bleeding Edge]

Your concerns of heat and reliability should not factor in as a decision to a final choice. These high caliber drives are all products of highest quality manufacturing. The warranties provided are all 5 year replacements. As to the thermal issues, each of these drives have a 50 degree C maxium operating tempurature.

Anyone of these drives will be a nice purchase. The IBM may be the best, however, not to the "relative extent" of being noticable. The Cheetah does come in a 4MB version.

The only real deciding factor I can think of is (besides personal choice; majority opinion) the fact that you already own a Cheetah. If you bought an identical drive, you leave the option open to connect the drives in a Raid 0/1 configuration for the fastest possible disk sub-system. In Raid the drives must be identical.

Otherwise Stan's recommendation is good. The Seagate and Quantum may be slightly less in cost, no?

[Bleeding Edge]

Oh. Buy the way. I'm not to confident your two fans provide adequate thermal protection. Unless they move about 80-110 CFM each, however, you did mention working in an air conditioned enviroment. May want to replace the fans and give consideration to the air flow that passes these drives. Maybe.