> Modern Fujitsu drives tend to have a very strong reputation.
> I've even hauled a couple from Africa to Europe and then back
> here into Oz without any problems.
>
> As for warranties... most companies are now settling for a 1
> year warranty, with a couple leaving their 3 year warranties
> intact for their high-end drives.
Except for the recent bad batch which has seen over 300,000 fuji drives returned (most of them were in Compaq's and Dells, mostly in the UK). The unofficial figure on those was a 30% failure rate. (theregister.co.uk has details on this from about a month ago)
The rest of this is IMHO:
Quantums are not good - been replacing lots of them lately, several early failures on the 20Gb models.
IBM are worrying. Aside from the numerous bad reports I have seen the 18Gb SCSI's pack up repetitively.
Maxtors and Western Digital are ok-ish, and Seagate's are good.
Cheers,
Marty
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