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Posted by Lincoln Spector on 07/14/06 00:12
"peterh5322" <peterh5322@rattlebrain.comminch> wrote in message
news:2006071313353116807-peterh5322@rattlebraincomminch...
> On 2006-07-13 10:19:40 -0700, "mtech" <marin.zorica/nospam/@zd.htnet.hr>
> said:
>
>> I prefer Maxtor and Western Digital HDD's!
>
> Maxtor is now owned by Seagate.
>
> Seagate Barracuda and Cheetah are excellent drives.
>
> Right now, my purchases are in 300 GB and larger PATA drives, usually
> Seagate or Maxtor. Occasionally Hitachi/IBM. Whichever comes on sale with
> no mail-in rebate requirement.
>
> When 500 GB drives hit $0.33 per gig, I'm changing out my 200, 250 and 300
> GB drives.
>
> I have had so many large capacity WD SCSI drives fail that I have
> permanently 86-ed this manufacturer. I won't even buy a WD ATA drive, now.
Interesting. The only hard drive I've ever had fail was the very first one I
ever bought, a Seagate 20MB drive about 20 years ago. Since then, none of
failed. But then, I don't do video editing and the largest hard drive I ever
bought is the almost empty 160GB in my current PC. Since the PC is a Dell
(bad mistake on my part), I expect it to fail soon after the warranty is
over.
Even if I didn't, I'd still back up religiously. Spector's First Law of
Computing: Never have only one copy of anything.
Lincoln
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