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Re: What type of HD?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thomas Gaume)
Tue Nov 17 07:29:55 1998
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 12:26:54 +0000
From: Thomas Gaume <tom@flwireless.net>
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I used to be in the hardware wholesale end of the bussiness and can tell you
from experiance that we seen less RMA's from fujitsu, followed by Quantum and
WD, Seagate EIDE drives had about a 12% failure rate in the first 90 days.
just my 2 cents.
"Frank N. Stein" wrote:
> On 17-Nov-98 Scottie complained about What type of HD?:
> > hi..
> > i'm planning to buy a hard disk....and i think i need about 4-5 gb..
> >
> > can u tell me what drive i should buy....
>
> No. But, I can tell you what I know.
>
> Using a Seagate drive here. It gives seek errors on boot but, that's
> the only time. Runs like a champ. Used to worry me when I first
> installed it. It's been running for about a year now with no changes in
> this so I think it's safe now.
>
> Got a Maxtor on a 'Doze box. It's been acting up since the day I
> installed it. I expect to wake up some morning with my wife screaming
> at me that she's lost everything. Heard of similar problems from others.
>
> Have _heard_ of Western Digital problems. Can't verify that. I have one
> running great but, it's a coupla years old (OK 4 or 5 years old) and
> may not suffer from the problems I've heard from others about them.
>
> Can't recall a hearing a single problem anywhere about Fujisu drives.
> Might be safe to use.
>
> Personally, I'm gonna buy a couple of more Seagates and live with the
> errors during boot since they haven't affected anything more than a
> couple of lines in the logs.
>
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