Hi,
Dave Anderson wrote:
Yup, time for a new disk. I'm off to do some research on who makes the
most reliable ones these days. [Suggestions from anyone knowledgable
are welcome.]
the companies merge and merge :) For a magnetic disc, there's Hitachi
global storage and Toshiba left for example. Western digital too, I used
to love it, but I had two external drives (which are essentially laptop
drives and carried around like laptops) which suffered sector damage
after just 2-3 years. I might just be unlucky, but now I am on my second
Toshiba external drive. The power consumption of WD was very good (start
off a standard USB port without any additional power or over-driving the
port, which certain older ports do not allow and require external power
like 99% of the disks I tested)
Riccardo
