Oh, I figured as much--however, I still think we should be very, very careful about basing hard drive reliability generalizations based on discussion forums. There are, of course, some forum members that have a little more credence than others...those made by individuals that have had firsthand experience with thousands of drives over dozens of batches. As I recall, a recent post by an individual with said experience on SR indicated that he hasn't seen unusual failure rates for any current drive series.
For my part, I've been gun shy with regard to Seagate for a while now, after bad experiences in the past. I do, however, have 4 7200.10's and 3 7200.9's in my personal machines. I still tend towards WD when I buy, but that decision is now based more on heat and noise than anything. The 7200.10's are fast, but quite loud...WD's new AAKS drives are fast, quiet, and run cool. Greg > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:hardware- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joe User > Sent: Friday, May 11, 2007 3:11 PM > To: The Hardware List > Subject: Re[2]: [H] Seagate drive died > > Hello Greg, > > Friday, May 11, 2007, 2:52:47 PM, you wrote: > > > You're kidding, right? One drive is _less_ than meaningless... > > I assume you are referring to my judgement on his one failed drive. > > However, he said in his post - that he googled and others are having > this issue (which you might have missed). Furthermore, I had already > made my judgement *well* before > his post (which I think I made clear in my post) and that was based on > gossip and personal experience. > > I concede not all Seagate drives are bad and if I am not mistaken > Maxtor and Seagate had combined, so there may be hope for them. > > -- > Regards, > joeuser - Still looking for the 'any' key...
