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| 411595 | 2005-12-10 06:23:00 | Appreciate helpful comments and web sites. It appears all brands can give trouble if you happen to strike a dud. Such is computing eh?. | Pato (2463) | ||
| 411596 | 2005-12-10 09:07:00 | It appears all brands can give trouble if you happen to strike a dud. Any brand that has been treated like a football before you get it will be a dud. I haven't ever seen any evidence that there is any real difference ex factory. Every brand has its failures, but by the time there is any evidence the model will be superceded anyway :rolleyes: |
PaulD (232) | ||
| 411597 | 2005-12-10 09:45:00 | Seagate. They give them the 5 year warranty for a reason. I have a Seagate 7 year old 2GB here, still fine. I'd avoid all the rest except perhaps WD, although they do run hot and noisy, but they are fast. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 411598 | 2005-12-10 10:56:00 | Seagates all the way! | techie (7177) | ||
| 411599 | 2005-12-10 18:44:00 | Seagate. They give them the 5 year warranty for a reason. Yeah, Seagate found that being the 1st to cut the 3 year warranty back to 1 year was a marketing disaster. |
PaulD (232) | ||
| 411600 | 2005-12-10 19:13:00 | Have been using Seagates for many, many years without any problem. Proven to be good and reliable, as far as I am concerned. Yeah same here I have had a couple of Maxtors in the past and they were slow and very unreliable :groan: , so i would say go seagate :D | The_End_Of_Reality (334) | ||
| 411601 | 2005-12-10 19:40:00 | Seagate, have 2 in my machine, one of which has survivied numerous formats (diff Linux distros, and disasters) and is getting onto 3 years old (40GB) I won't ever buy a Maxtor, my first hd was a Maxtor, lasted 15 months I have a Samsung that was given to me, using it more on testing machine, so we will see about that one how it goes But definitely Seagate |
Myth (110) | ||
| 411602 | 2005-12-11 02:49:00 | It looks like Seagate is the most popular. As suggested you don't know how they are treated during transport. It has taught me a hard lesson to backup which I will do in the future. | Pato (2463) | ||
| 411603 | 2005-12-11 09:44:00 | It looks like Seagate is the most popular.I've had quite a few Seagates over the last 11 years and never had a failure. Also their diagnsotic software is pretty cool. | Greg (193) | ||
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