On Tue, 2008-09-02 at 22:13 +0100, Simon Royal wrote: > 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.
Howdy, I remember thinking the same thing until one month I had 3 systems with Seagate hard drives fail. Looking back, they were all in the 10 to 20 gb range and it seems to me that size range was problematic for all manufacturers. I don't have any surviving drives in that size range on any system. I usually have 20 or 30 systems going all the time. I have several 6 gig drives and drives 40 gb and up. I tend to buy WD or Seagate now with an occasional Hitachi. In servers, I do buy Fujitsu. Good luck, Ralph --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
