Surprisingly in light of what you�ve said, my experience has always been really excellent with Seagate drives � I have supplied many many to my clients over the years and amazingly I have yet to hear of a single failure. I have also had good experiences with Western Digital (although I haven�t supplied anything like as many of these), but by comparison two suppliers I can�t recommend are IBM (now Hitachi) and Maxtor (not as bad as IBM were, but I have still seen a few failures).
Any more experiences from other people to add to the data? One key point is that longevity of drives is very much affected by how hot they get. For example, although it is possible to mount four drives in the base of a G4 Power Macintosh, I wouldn�t personally recommend it with most drives because of the heat problem. There are some drives that run very hot (particularly the 10k or 15 rpm drives, of course), and these you would particularly want to avoid in that situation. Also some external FireWire enclosures don�t have very good cooling, and again you should be careful about which drives you mount in these. Nick -- Nick Collingridge - Zapp Computer Consultancy From: "Matt Emson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: "Mac UK" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 19:42:43 -0000 To: "Mac UK" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: 2-4GB 50-pin SCSI Hard Drives Seagate IDE drives are pretty bad too - I had a 2GB and a 10GB die on me with in 2 years of each other. -- Mac UK is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... 123Inkjets.com <http://lowendmac.com/ad/123inkjets.html> Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Mac UK list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/mac-uk.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-uk%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
