On Thursday 20 May 2004 00:26, Guy wrote: > >I would also concur. I had a Western Digital that failed after 10 > >months. Western Digital sent me another one that failed in exactly 10 > >months again. I didn't want to send it in to get yet another piece of > >WD junk. So, lesson learned to stay away form WD drives; correct or not. > > > >Sevatio > > ========================================================================== > > I had problems with Maxtor. So, lesson learned to stay away form Maxtor > drives; correct or not. > > My friend had problems with IBM. > > Who's left? I like Seagate, for now. > > A few years ago HP and EMC were using Seagate drives in their big disk > arrays. I am sure they have stats and know which drives are good. Hm, I somehow seriously doubt that, if and when you're talking about _brands_. However, I strongly feel that certain _series_ are indeed better or worse than others. But that only helps big manufacturers; by the time we need to buy a new drive the serie either doesn't exist anymore, is overhauled to reduce cost, or has been transfered from plant Y in Taiwan to plant X in China. (not that I imply anything by naming countries, they're examples) The tricky part, especially for manufacturers, is that they only know after the fact if they chose their drive brand / model wisely. Only after a year or so they can see how many returns they've had, and by that time it's too late to change anything about it. Maarten -- Yes of course I'm sure it's the red cable. I guarante[^%!/+)F#0c|'NO CARRIER - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
