First of all, nearly everyone used IBM drives at one point. When
you could produce the volume needed at a price you couldn't
argue with why not buy? My pile of dead or nearly dead laptop
drives is 80% IBM/Hitachi. 19% Fujitsu & Toshiba. Maybe a couple
Seagate and not more than one or two WD or Samsung. Really don't
see WD laptop drives that often.
FWIW, IBM only sold 70% of its drive business (or the assets) to
Hitachi. That was shortly after the beginning of the DeathStar
debacle.
Buying a Mac (laptop) is a really poor excuse to get a new
computer. It isn't as if the hardware is more or less reliable
than any other computer. One thing I do recommend to *anybody*
considering a Mac, get the extened warranty no questions asked.
They cost way too much to repair and I refuse to work on them
any more.
The hardware nazi,
Mr O.
<roger wrote:>
Also, Dell laptops use to use IBM hard drives until they sold
their
hard
drive business overseas to Hitachi.
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>
>
> Opinions sought:
>
> I have a friend with a Dell laptop that's old enough to be out
> of
> warranty, but not too old to be useful.
> The 20G hard drive in it failed, so I replaced it for him with
> a 60G
> drive a few months ago.
> Now that has failed as well, and even if I mount it in a USB
> enclosure,
> it still fails. So the questions are;
> Is this a pair of bad drives, or one bad controller? RMA the
> drive? Can
> the controller be replaced, and if so
> is it worth it? Should I just tell him to buy a Mac (because
> he's
> thinking of going back to Windows)? In this instance, data
> recovery
> would be nice, but it's not a huge concern.
>
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