Quoting Keith Edmunds <kae@???>:
> On Mon, 21 Apr 2008 18:09:33 +0100, tony.lambert@??? said:
>
> > Does anyone have any horror stories about certain brands of hard drive,
> > and would avoid at all costs ?
>
> Ask enough people and you'll get all brands covered. If any one disk
> manufacturer consistently produced bad disks, they'd go out of business. A
> lot of people seem to dislike Maxtor: we used them for a long time in
> servers without problems. What does that prove? Nothing, really. I was one
> of many bitten by the IBM DeskStar (aka "DeathStar") drives, which put me
> off them, but I'm sure IBM drives today will not suffer the same problem.
IBM hard drive business is owned by hitachi now i think.
Maxtor is owned by someone seagate? and is used as a cheap/low end brand.
Custom PC magazine has done some good tests this month on hard drives with the
samsung 750GB being the fastest sata drive.
Martin N
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