I have a few Seagate 7200 3.5" ATA drives still running from 2001. They are 13 years old and have been transferred to different G4's but the drives are perfect. They all came with the 5 year warranty. Various Macbook and iBook drives I have had failures. So far my Macbook Pro late 2011 with a Toshiba drive seems to be very good. So what to look for in a drive these days? There does not seem to be any concrete data on what to buy for extended reliability. SSD seems to be more reliable but prices are still a little high. Samsung and Intel lead with the lowest failure rates of SSD's. HDD Brands have been sold or merged with other companies. Search around and you will get a hundred views on reliability and many ideas on warranty issues. Seems like all you can really do is make good backup's and even replace your backup drives every so often.
On Jun 2, 2014, at 9:03 PM, [email protected] wrote: > >> When I purchase a new drive I look for those designated "enterprise >> grade". They're the ones with 5 year warranties. > > Used to be everything had a 5 year warranty. > > Then the consumer/prosumer drives drives were reduced to 3 years. > > Now the consumer/prosumer drives are reduced to 2 years. > > The enterprise drives remain at 5 years, which is good. > > Seagate has relegated Barracuda to consumer/prosumer and has introduced > new enterprise drives. > > Seagate's 2.5" offerings (Momentus, for example) are still the best in my > book, which is somewhat strange as Seagate didn't come out with a 2.5" > offering until years after IBM (now Hitachi) and Toshiba, and, later, WD. > > Historically, IBM's SCSI 2.5" drives (500 and 1000 megabyte capacity) were > originally intended for a UC-Berkeley-inspired RAID product, with the > drives physically mounted on a blade-type controller card. > > Product never got off the ground, but IBM had already purchased Mylex > (remember them ?) which was supposed to design the cards, with IBM > supposed to make the packaging and firmware. > > IBM had already confirmed the concept of commodity drives in a > "Count-Key-Data" array product, the 9345, using its own 5.25" SCSI drives, > and the 2.5" version was logically a "die shrink" concept applied to the > 9345. > > IBM is still largely "Count-Key-Data", a concept which never seems to die. > > > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, 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] > For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "G-Group" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, 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] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "G-Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
