Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 14:36:42 -0700 (PDT) From: Dan Strick <strick@covad.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IDE hard disk recoms Message-ID: <200406162136.i5GLagcE000455@mist.nodomain>
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On Wed, 16 Jun 2004 18:40:06 +0100, Mike Woods wrote: >> > I dont know about today but seagate drives used to have real longevity > problems years ago (back in my amiga days :)) >> That was probably before Seagate bought the small disk product line from Imprimis/MPI/CDC. For a while after that it was pretty obvious which Seagate drives had which heritage. My sample space is pretty small. I have bought only a handfull of disk drives in recent years. About half were Maxtor and half were Seagate. My only failure was a Maxtor drive and since it was still under warranty Maxtor FedExed me a replacement within a day or so. I feel pretty good about either brand. I would tend to favor Seagate. (As an aside: I remember when Imprimis announced it was dropping its 8" product line. I asked a salesman why they did that. He explained that data densities were getting too high and asked, "Why would anyone want 5 GB on a single spindle?") Dan Strick
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