At 15:16 +0200 9/16/2006, Molle Bestefich wrote:
A.) Does anyone have experience with returning Hitachi, Seagate or
WD drives to the manufacturer? Do they have manufacturer warranty at
all? How much/little trouble did you have with Hitachi, Seagate or WD?
A few years ago (but after IBM sold their HDD business to Hitachi) I
had a laptop drive (48GB 2.5") die before the three year warranty
ended. I did the diagnostic code, RMA thing and got a refurbished
replacement which also died within a year. Repeated diagnostic and
RMA which got me another drive which still works fine. I think the
original two drives died because I was running the laptop they were
in 24x7; most laptop drives are not designed for that duty cycle. The
new drive has been great in an external USB+Firewire enclosure as a
48GB sneakernet drive.
I've never had reason to return a Seagate or WD drive. It's been a
few years since I used a Seagate personally. I have a 4-way RAID-0 of
WD 74GB 10K-RPM Raptors (five year warranty) which work great. I also
have two WD 400GB RE2 drives (also five year warranty) in RAID-0 that
also seem great.
B.) Can anyone *prove* (to a reasonable degree) that drives from
manufacturer H, M, S or WD is of better quality? Has anyone seen a
review that heat/shock/stress test drives?
I can't even prove that *I* exist. ;)
C.) Does good SATA cables exist? Eg. cables that lock on to the
drives, or backplanes which lock the entire disk in place?
WD has "SecureConnect" which is a SATA connecter their drives
support. I use it and like it on all my WD SATA drives.
http://www.wdc.com/en/products/accessories.asp?ProdID=74
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