[TriLUG] Hardware: Most reliable IDE HD brand?

bp bpevans at bellsouth.net
Mon Dec 2 11:15:50 EST 2002


Tanner Lovelace wrote:

>On Mon, 2002-12-02 at 10:57, Roy Vestal wrote:
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>>I personally like Western Digital, IBM, and Seagate in that order. I
>>recommend staying away from Maxtor and Quantum if you can.
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>Hmm... I've actually had the best results with Maxtor hard drives
>and the worst with Western Digital.  So, it seems YMMV.
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>Cheers,
>Tanner
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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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