Re: what brand of hd

There was some genuine competition over the years. Pretty much dried up
now.
All of em managed to make some quirky, and some quick to fail models and
batches in an effort to compete in quality and price along the way.
The last WD I got had a failure only determined by the mfrs software and
bios check of SMART. XP had no qualms using it, scary. The only genuine
drive failure I've had was with a WD 8.4GB. I've had many WDs inbetween,
most I still have and still going strong.
Also have 1 Seagate, 1 Hitachi, 1 IBM still going well.

What to buy now is as before. Its a toss of the dice. There's always a
batch of a model or two that may have problems from a given mfr.
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"boaz" <nospam@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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This is getting very frustrating.

Back in the day, the choice was simple -- Western Digtial or Quantum
WD and Quantum were very reliable.

Ever since WD went down years ago, the choice was simple -- Maxtor.
Again Maxtor was very reliable.

Seagate and Conner were just bad.


Now after they've tried to drive everybody else out of business, we have
only two -- Seagate and Western Digital.

Reading the reviews from amazon.com is frustrating. Hard disks crashed in
both brand and lost everything within a week or so.

So... what to buy?




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