On Wednesday 06 April 2005 12:29 am, Greg Wallace wrote:
-----Original Message----- From: Felix Miata [mailto:mrmazda@ij.net] Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2005 8:13 PM
WD I would never buy. Do some Googling for comments from expert Linux developers to see one reason why. The other is they have a unique sound that to me sounds truly cheap, which matches the experiences of those I know who have used them.
My last choice is Maxtor, partially because of failure experiences, partly because they seem most prone to come in with anomalous benchmarking results.
Drives I've purchased since 01 Jan 2005: Seagate, Hitachi & Samsung. The latter two I bought for special reasons. Seagate is my current first choice. The recent Barracudas are so incredibly quiet, and Seagate's current retail warranty is the best in the biz.
You're the second person so far to give Seagate a good reference. Based on my interpretation of the responses so far, it's 1) Seagate 2) Maxtor 3) Western Digital
I have seen Seagate offered on vendor web sites, but have never looked into them. Sounds like I should.
Thanks, Hi Greg
I also agree on the Seagate drives. I have 2 160GB ATA drives in 2 systems that are running well. I also have a few Maxtors and WDs; all of which are doing well. I suspect that each manufacturer has had some streaks of 'bad luck', and your perception is related to the chance that yours was one of the bad ones. I have had 2 WDs go bad years ago and the replacement proceedure was easy and painless. WD even had a "Cross-Ship" option with prepaid return in the same packaging. PeterB -- -- Proud SUSE user since 5.2 Loving SUSE 9.2 My BLOG == http://vancampen.org/blog --