Hard Drive recommendations please!

[halfadder]

I am in the process of doing some minor updates to an old server (1.26GHZ P3, parallel ATA-100). I maxed out the ram, replaced the fans, and I now need a new hard drive. It had been using an old 7200RPM 40MB Seagate. I would like something that's a little bigger and a little faster. Reliability is important because this serves a business website, but raw speed and capacity isn't as important as there is only about 5GB of data on the current drive and the internet connection is only a pair of T1s (3Mbit up + 3 Mbit down).

I like Seagate drives as they are usually cool running and reliable. The ST3120026A (120GB Barracuda 7200.7 Plus 8MB Parallel ATA) has caught my attention. Because of the strange locked BIOS on this server I cannot use a drive larger than 120GB anyway.

http://www.seagate.com/cda/products/dis...es/marketing/detail/0,1081,580,00.html

What do you think or suggest?

 

[MisterChief]

Personally, I would reccomend a couple SATA drives. But since you seem to be using an older server, I guess the Seagate drive would be an excellent choice.

 

[halfadder]

Yeah, ideally I would have a hardware RAID card driving some SATA drives. But this is a thin 1U server and there's only room for 2 drives and no RAID support. I just want to replace the existing drive with something a little newer and a little bigger and faster. For backup I have a script that copies all of the important data to another server every so often. In the event of a major failure, I could easily replace the drive and restore the data from the other server.

I'm leaning towards that Seagate but I'd like to hear from others with more Seagate experience than me.

 

[MarkTKM]

I can't speak to the other factors, but I can relate my experience with overall reliabilty. I keep 4 desktops running for various people (3 home use, 1 small business). I've replaced 5 hard drives due to outright failure, and not one of them was a seagate. It's my first choice for pickup when I need one.:thumbsup: