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Well after much deliberation I've finally decided to purchase a couple of 500GB SATA babys today for a server that is always on and highly used (it's a domain controller). I've narrowed it down to, well... all the 500GB SATA drives on OcUK 
It's been a while since I've bought hard drives for a server so just one or two things I'd like to be sure about beforehand...
Buying either Hitachi or Maxtor are both going to be a good 40 quid more expensive than the other three makes but the only real difference I can see is seek time (8.5ms as opposed to 8.9ms), is this really such a big difference?
Would you advise me to go for/avoid any particular makes when it comes to reliability? Sure I keep backups but I'm hoping I won't have to use them!
Cheers,
Luke
It's been a while since I've bought hard drives for a server so just one or two things I'd like to be sure about beforehand...Buying either Hitachi or Maxtor are both going to be a good 40 quid more expensive than the other three makes but the only real difference I can see is seek time (8.5ms as opposed to 8.9ms), is this really such a big difference?
Would you advise me to go for/avoid any particular makes when it comes to reliability? Sure I keep backups but I'm hoping I won't have to use them!
Cheers,
Luke
thanks!