[TriLUG] Hardware: Most reliable IDE HD brand?

[Thomas C. Meggs]

I'm pretty sure it's safe to say its all crap.

Many of you may have been keeping up with the IBM GXP fiasco. Crap 
drives, lots of bad production runs, they reduced the warranty, and lots 
of people are up in arms over their rewording of the warranty which says 
you can only run your drive for something like 6 hours out of the day.

I've heard many people speak positively about Maxtor, many people speak 
negatively.

I've heard many people speak positively about Western Digital, and many 
people speak negatively.

I think it really just depends on what is happening at that point in 
time, and the bottom line is there are insane price wars right now with 
hard drives, which mean skimping on 'not-as-important' parts and more 
short cuts taken during production runs. Proceed with caution.

Warm Regards,
Tom

bp wrote:

> Tanner Lovelace wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 2002-12-02 at 10:57, Roy Vestal wrote:
> >
> >
> >> I personally like Western Digital, IBM, and Seagate in that order. I
> >> recommend staying away from Maxtor and Quantum if you can.
> >>
> >
> >
> > Hmm... I've actually had the best results with Maxtor hard drives
> > and the worst with Western Digital.  So, it seems YMMV.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Tanner
> >
> >
> About 6-7 yrs ago I worked in a Staples store.  Return rates on Maxtor
> HDs were horrible.  Based on that experience then I'd be very
> apprehensive about buying any of their products today even though that
> experience is very dated now.
>
> -bp
>
>
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