Hard disc confusopoly

[fivemack]

I have run out of disc space; I have a spare hot-swap disc bay in my computer; I'd like to put a 1TB disc in it.

www.scan.co.uk list thirteen models of 1TB SATA hard disc, ranging in price from £77 to £165, with no idea as to what differentiates them. I currently have three Seagate drives and a WD drive, so diversification suggests the cheaper Hitachi one, but that's a justification not much better than writing down the list and using a pin.

Given my curse, I wonder if I should buy two 1TB drives from different manufacturers and keep them as a RAID1.

Comments

[arnhem.livejournal.com]

Seagate (and probably the others) now differentiate between their usual range of disks, and their "server" models (usually about 10% more expensive) which are allegedly designed for continuous uptime.