3 Jul
2006
3 Jul
'06
10:23 p.m.
I've heard of people having trouble with their
Western Digital drives,
but I have had none, I've also extensively used Seagate, Maxtor and
Western Digital drives, all just fine.
ive had 2 western digital drives. one was somehow fried by the controller. the other
sounded like a jet engine taking off. ive had one maxtor, it died. ive heard more stories
of maxtors failing than any other, but thats just because the kind of people who use them
buy them beacuse theyre cheap, then put them in use on a heavy-traffic ftp site or
something. its probably a cost-effective way to go if you use a RAID or build in
redundancy via nightly rsync \ darcs synch
ive never had a quantum die. everyone i have still runs, including a 40 mb, and a 1 gb,
and a 4 gb. one of them is from 1992. but theyre all SCSI, so i dont ahve much use for
them now that i gave away my Macs.