On Thursday 14 October 2004 21:28, Felix Miata wrote:
200GB one ... what would be the best choice of hard drives, besides WD ?
I've been buying Seagate since Maxtor absorbed Quantum and Hitachi took over IBM. 5 year Seagate warranties are a major plus.
Just to add my 2 cents about Seagate. I bought myself a 40GB seagate when they came out. I put it in a pouch that I had over my shoulder. Long story short, the strap broke as I was climbing the stairs out of the trains station (my mode of transport then) and it fell and tumbled town the stairs about two stories. The drive was only in that plastic casing the Seagates used to come in, no box with padding in. Still have the drive in my home PC, and it's still not giving any trouble. Just as a side note, as far as I know Seagate bought Conner (someone correct me if I'm wrong). When I lived in school res I had a 286 with an 80 MB Conner drive. We didn't have power outlets in our rooms, but we had a computer room where everybody who had computers worked - we were only about five or so. I was concerned that someone would tamper with my computer (this was before bios passwords and internet was not even a rumour yet, so the only way I could prevent this was taking the drive out and keeping it in my room. It stayed in the top shelve in my closet, from where I've dropped it countless times - on a concrete floor. I still have that drive too - working like day one. I used to use it to backup my mail folders, until they became to big... -- Kind regards Hans du Plooy Newington Consulting Services hansdp at newingtoncs dot co dot za