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About this blog: Computers hate me. They really do. Every time I try to do something unusual like add new hardware, something is guaranteed to go wrong. I decided to start writing about my constant problems so that someone else might benefit from my experiences - or at least laugh at them!

07 January 2008, 10:51pm

I've finally retired my 4 x 300GB RAID5 Seagate array and replaced it with 3 x 750GB Western Digital. I was intending it to be 3 x 500GB, but no MSY stores had them and the only other retail stores I could find with stock were expensive enough that it was a better deal to buy the 750's from MSY. I now have a ridiculous 1000GB of free space (1500GB total usable), with no current way to back it all up if I did somehow fill it.

I've also installed a dedicated boot drive so that Windows programs and data are now completely separate, and I have a much better chance of being able to boot into Windows if the array starts playing up.

I've asked Seagate for a prorated refund equal to the current replacement cost of the 300GB drives as I'm now up to 6 failed drives within a 2 year period (two of them were reco's to replace failed drives).

Goodbye Seagate, you will not be missed. You still live on in a couple of my servers, but you won't be getting any further cash from me.