Recommend me a new (cheap & reliable) HDD

jmc41 · 21-05-2007, 19:33

I've seen Knoppix a CD bootable linux distro work quite well for getting stuff off a drive that's been messed up.

It's 700mb but you can get decent and legal torrents for it that download pretty quick.

It's a bit more pricey but you could use raid1 in future to mirror the data and avoid loss unless both drives die at the same time. It certainly worked well at work, no downtime with tape restores at all.

Scan is doing 160gb maxtors for £30/each inc. vat.

Quite tempted myself actually.

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21-05-2007, 19:33	#12
jmc41 Absinthe Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 1,070	I've seen Knoppix a CD bootable linux distro work quite well for getting stuff off a drive that's been messed up. It's 700mb but you can get decent and legal torrents for it that download pretty quick. It's a bit more pricey but you could use raid1 in future to mirror the data and avoid loss unless both drives die at the same time. It certainly worked well at work, no downtime with tape restores at all. Scan is doing 160gb maxtors for £30/each inc. vat. Quite tempted myself actually.