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Posted by Toby on 07/14/06 02:05
"Lincoln Spector" <notmyreal@address.com> wrote in message
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> "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:
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>>> I prefer Maxtor and Western Digital HDD's!
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>> Maxtor is now owned by Seagate.
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>> Seagate Barracuda and Cheetah are excellent drives.
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
Indeed.
MTBF don't mean shit when the F happens to you.
Toby
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