Re: another dead HD, which do you use?



On Fri, 17 Jun 2005 16:23:24 +0200, martin griffith
<martingriffith@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>2 HD's dead this month, googleling for "Hard Drive Reliabilty" gives
>zillions of pages of adverts saying how reliable Our HD's are. Even
>tomshardware didnt go into it in detail
>
>What do you use?
>
>BTW I notice that my latest drive must not be exposed to more than
>350G's of shock. I'd accept 100G's if they lasted longer...
>martin

Nowadays, Samsung drives are supposed to be the good ones. They sure
are quiet. This could change tomorrow as manufacturers seem to have
their bad spells. Maxtor is having problems with their drives. I don't
know if they have solved their problems yet.

---
Mark
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