On Thursday 14 October 2004 14:05, Jeffrey Laramie wrote:
This is a good read, since I was just about to go out and get myself a 200GB one ... what would be the best choice of hard drives, besides WD ?
I prefer Seagate also, so it's unanimous!
Here's something I'll add to this hard drive issue... and trust me, something you don't want to go through personally. I've gone through 2 IBM 15GB hd's, 3 WD 40GB and now I'm currently running with a 10GB Maxtor and a 60GB WD, and has all happened within 7 month period. The IBM drives had a known production problem, don't really know about the WD drives. Personally, I think debian had a kill issue in at least 2 of the WD drives. (one was outright doa, since you couldn't even partition the drive...) Being a former partner of a computer store, I can tell you that this happens with almost *all* hardware to some extent. I've had Linksys/3com/Intel nics die, maxtor, western digital and seagate hard drives die, etc. But I must admit that the quality of hardware is going downhill for the most part, compared to years back. I still have a really old 512MB seagate and a maxtor 1GB drive chugging along on a system running as a firewall. (try that Microsoft!) ;) (it's a old gateway 100Mhz Pentium btw) In a nutshell, buyer beware. Dana