Bruce I disagree. I had had a lot of Macs usually older ones with original drives. In fact I am writing this on a Lombard with a 6GB drive which must be coming up for 8 years old.
Drives are generally reliable. I have never had a drive die on me, but I have had drive slowly deteriorate. I had a 10GB drive which was clicking, popping and clunking, but it was still going. Back in 1997 I bought a 486 PC with a 502MB Seagate hard drive. My mum had it as a second drive in her PC until last year and it was still going strong more than 10 years later. So brands have a shorter shelf life, or a worse reputation than others but in general the stories are pretty much the same. >From my experience, IBM drives have a shorter shelf life, Fujitsu are very noisy and Seagate are ultra reliable. Simon --- http://www.simonroyal.co.uk - Mac news, reviews, guides, upgrades, hacks and more... - http://www.nmug.org.uk - webmaster for Norwich Mac User Group - The box said requires Windows XP or better, so I bought an Apple Mac. On Sep 2 2008, Bruce Johnson wrote: On Sep 2, 2008, at 1:10 PM, Steve R wrote: > > At 7:16 PM +0100 9/2/08, Simon Royal posted: >> Hi >> >> I would stay away from Fujitsu, while they work great they are very >> noisy. > > I bought a 20GB Fujitsu back when 20GB was considered big > (2000/2001?). It failed within a month, very suddenly without > warning. They sent me another one that failed within 2 months, then > another that last less than a month. The stickers indicated different > manufactured dates. I started watching my regular shopping sites and > within a month of the third drive dying, no one was even listing the > drives. Failure prone model lines and specific models are nothing new, and happen all the time (remember the IBM 'DeathStar' line?) however the major manufacturers make good quality products most all of the time. People trash and praise the same brands, there's much folklore out there. The problem is twofold: 1) Drive failure is actually a rare enough occurrence that 99.999% of those opinions out there are purely anecdotal, and the plural of anecdote is not data. 2) HDD's are a commodity product today. Companies do sell server-grade drives, and they're priced accordingly. So you do get what you pay for. Be aware, though, that server-grade drives tend to run hotter and noiser than workstation-grade ones. Fundamentally, however, the lesson here is not "Which drive is the best" but "How robust is your backup strategy?" --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
