kel

It's not so much reliability as up-time. The last time I so much as physically looked at that linux box was a 4 months ago. Once I fix it up I don't want to look at again. I expect it to be there like death and taxes.

I move with relatively high frequency (I have a year and a half at my current location, before now I moved once or twice a year) and I suspect that helps explain why I have a history of frequent drive failures. They all last no more then 3 years.

I read that FDB motors handle shipping better.

I have been all over WD's site and they say that FDB is offered as an option on some drives, but when I try and find more details on it I come up empty. If you look at the specs of the drives it isn't mentioned. Maxtor however is very vocal about their use of FDB.

In a somewhat unrelated question, will older motherboards (PIII era) have difficulty recognizing large hard drives ie 160gig+?

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