On Fri, 16 Feb 2001 18:41:04 +0100, William Leese writes: >..okay, so we have maxtor, seagate, conner (same company as seagate maybe, >but they still sell HDs under their name) and i think i've heard something >about samsung.. so, which HD manufacturer makes reliable HDs, anyone? IBM >maybe?
I use IBM-hdds almost exclusively since ~ 1996, mainly because they´re almost always the 2nd-cheapest. Not a single one failed me in that time, even though some of them are installed in, well, suboptimal ways (not being fixated with screws, but dangling around...see http://gfrastsackl.org/realityshow/ for examples). This all only counts IDE-drives, for SCSI I use Seagate Cheetah´s, but it seems to me that they´ve got a lifespan of ~ 2 years only, then start slowly dying (but hey, they´re fast). cheers, &rw -- / Ing. Robert Waldner | Network Engineer | T: +43 1 89933 F: x533 \ \ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | KPNQwest/AT | DSA key ID: C33A2BC0 /