Over the last few years I have upgraded and swapped a few HDs in my old PM5500 and in friend's iMacs/ In every case I used Seagate Barracuda range - no regrets. This was influenced by success stories from <http://wwwxlr8yourmac.com>
However I am sure that any brand of anything has some bad apples in its line and there are no certainties. If a HD line was bad I would expect to see evidence at the above web site. My 2c regards Brian > 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 > > -- 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
