YMMV. The only hard-drives I've ever had fail in use were Western Digital.
Especially problematic have been their "MyBook" external USB drives
which have really, REALLY piss-poor power supplies.
On 9/4/2014 4:07 AM, Zos Xavius wrote:
I forget which hosting company, but recently a very large internet
hosting company produced statistics on their hard drive failure rates.
This company uses cheap consumer drives so the figures were
interesting. Topping the list on reliability was Hitachi followed by
Western Digital. This was interesting because Hitachi was long known
for producing some of the most unreliable drives. It seems they have
reversed this trend. I don't know if anyone remembers their deskstar
aka deathstar disks that all mostly died under 6 months. That was a
long time ago, but Hitachi has come a long way. I personally prefer WD
drives and have had better luck with them than others, but it looks
like Hitachi is now the top dog for the moment. It is better, as has
been mentioned, to buy the better rated drives. If you notice some WD
drives are only warrantied for 1 year. Their better drives still have
5 year warranties. That should tell you something.
On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 1:50 AM, David Mann <[email protected]> wrote:
On Sep 4, 2014, at 1:06 pm, Brian Walters <[email protected]> wrote:
Interesting. I usually cart a laptop around when I travel, but this would
reduce some weight.
I usually bring my laptop as well but now that I'm afraid to tilt the screen I
thought something like this could be of use. But then I figured a couple of
extra SD cards is all I should need for my upcoming trip, and if I run out of
space I'm sure I can buy more.
Actually I wonder if I can persuade the wife to bring her laptop :)
Cheers,
Dave
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