[sclug] Drive manufacturers (was: hot drives)

[Alex Butcher]

On Mon, 19 Jun 2006, Keith Edmunds wrote:

>
>> A while ago I swore never to buy Maxtor ever again but then .....
>
> What make of SATA drives do people prefer? I suspect there will be a
> fairly equal spread amongst users here, but it would be interesting to
> hear opinions.

Regardless of interface standard, I currently prefer Seagate and WD
enterprise drives on the basis of their warranty terms - 5 years. After that
comes WD's Special Edition (JB/JD) models with 3 year warranties. Maxtor is
at the bottom of my list, based on the anecdotally-high rates of failure
I've heard of. Maxtor have just been bought by Seagate, and they've had
thousands of employees sacked, so hopefully the Maxtor brand will become
more like Seagate rather than the other way around. :-/

There's a saying I've heard, though, that says that at any given time,
there's only enough engineers to make up one top-flight team of HDD
designers, and they drift from manufacturer to manufacturer in sequence.

> Keith

Best Regards,
Alex.
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