Re: [expert] hard drive experiences (was 8.0 final --brakes MANY applications (Software Installeris first on that list))

[Walter Luffman]

Let me see if I have this straight.  At various times Western Digital, IBM, 
Quantum and Maxtor have all produced drives that are lemons.  These makers 
have also produced some very good drives.  Is that about right?

Okay, who has horror stories to tell about Seagate and Fujitsu?  (I've never 
used Fujitsu, although I put one into a machine I built for my nephew and 
AFAIK it's still working fine.  The only Seagate drive I've ever owned was a 
20MB MFM unit in a second-hand XT clone; I never did manage to kill it, but 
toward the end of its *very* long life it started developing bad sectors at 
an alarming rate.  But then, I'm only 51 and I seem to have a few bad sectors 
myself.)
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