Hey Diane... On Sep 2, 2008, at 10:40 , diane wrote:
> > I am looking to increase hard drive space in my G4 1.42DP > > Any thoughts on brands? I may go up to a full terrabyte, they are not > that expensive all things considered. > > Or do I just get 2 500's and use one as a backup (my current backups > are external and are 160 & 320) > > I have a friend looking at a G5 as well. The drive bus speed is 1.5 > gb/s. In the larger drives there seem to be more 3.0 gb/s. Will those > work with a 1.5 card? > > Sorry for the double question but at least the brand recommendations > will hold true. :) > > Diane My experience only! YMMV! I've never had a problem with Seagate drives. Western Digital has been pretty solid, although I've had two of their drives fail within a couple hours of each other. Out of warranty, of course! I have an older Fujitsu that has been is many of my boxes for testing with no problems. Hitachi... well, I've had 4 of them and 3 are dead. The notebook drive seems to working okay. The desktop drives... A few years back, I bought a 120GB Hitachi drive. After about 8 months, it failed taking a lot of data with it. To their credit, Hitachi promptly replaced the drive. Within 3 months, the replacement failed and after a few weeks of emails back and forth, Hitachi offered me a 250GB drive as a replacement. Great! Fast forward 18 months... Yup, the 250GB while not DEAD, is really screwed up. I've never seen a hard drive acting quite like this. ANYway... I've been talking with Hitachi about a replacement and they agree that it is under warranty. All I have to do is take it back to store where I bought it. They don't quite understand that the drive came from them. <sigh> So... thus endeth my rant on Hitachi hard drives! Amanda --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 [email protected] 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
