Abram B. Olson wrote:
I'll give a forth vote to seagate. I have two of their 80 Gb sata discs I'll give a fifth. We have some ancient ones here in the lab where I work and many are still working. While some of the Seagates have failed, over the years we have seen more failures with the Western Digitals. We don't have any Maxtors at work so I can't comment about that but at home I have had good luck with Maxtor. I have one Maxtor that I replaced recently. It hadn't failed but had a very annoying bearing noise. I was just looking at new drives this week and was amazed to see that the Seagate was the only one I saw with a 5 year warranty. I was almost going to get that one but I found a Hitachi 160GB with 3 year at Best Buy for $59 after rebate. I hope Hitachi has improved on the problems IBM was having before selling to Hitachi.
Felix Miata wrote:
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 I remember that discussion from last year. I am having to use SuSE 9.0 with 2.4 kernel because of that problem.
Drives I've purchased since 01 Jan 2005: Seagate, Hitachi & Samsung. The what do you think of the Hitachi so far?
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