I've installed dozens of Samsung HM160HC drives, and while the early batches were excellent, I've had quite a few failures with the more recent ones. No issues with their SATA offerings.
As for WD, I prefer the 250GB PATA to the 320GB, because I find it to be quieter. As always, YMMV. Cheers, George -----Original Message----- From: Ray Bay <[email protected]> To: Thinkpad <[email protected]> Sent: Wed, May 23, 2012 12:52 pm Subject: [Thinkpad] Reliability Experience with IDE 2.5 hard Drives & Samsung` As everyone with an older Thinkpad now knows, IDE drives are expensive to come by... and reliability has become a question Nearly all of the 12 vendors we use for our repair shops now *limit the numbers* of Western Digital, Seagate, or Toshiba hard drives we can order. However, Samsung, Hitachi, and Fujitsu are reasonably plentiful... But we see very high failure rates of these... though Fujitsu is not too worrisome... just no large drive sizes. We are wondering what your experience has been with Samsun IDE 2.5 hard drives... as our failure rate is very high. We wonder if it is damaging done in shipment or if they just are not built as well. Hitachi, of course (under new company and management) claims all their problems are resolved and they will last as long as Seagate, Western Digital, and Toshiba. But the only Hitachi drives we find are all SATA as nearly as we can tell. All the IDE drives are old technology with old date codes... plentiful but nearly worthless. We would like to learn of your experience and recommendations on brands and suppliers. If we have just been unlucky with Samsung, we will go for more of them. They are plentiful and the prices are the lowest we have found... Still, we have had a number of Samsung drives that lasted less than 30 days in a client's Thinkpad. RayBay -- ** The future ain't what it used to be. ... .... ..... ...... Yogi Berra _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
