O.K.  Here's my $0.02 worth.  I like Maxtor because they are usually the
quietest of drives I've used, but they are (IMHO) middle of the road with
reliability.  Fujitsu drives are actually very reliable.  They aren't the
quickest of drives though.  My top vote, though, is for IBM.  The only thing
you need to be carefull of is the 7200-10,000rpm drives need extra cooling.
They have a tendancy to get a wee on the hot side.

Western Digital used to be, in my estimation, the top of the line drive in
IDE formats.  Before them (do you even remember the RLL? and MLM days)
Seagate was without question the absolute leader.  Now I put them in the
upper 40%, but don't rely on them.  Oh, and Quantum lost my vote when they
came out with the Bigfoot, but I will grudgingly admit their drives have
improved since that fiasco.  Hope this helps!

Kyle Elmblade
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From: "David Jarrett" <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, September 15, 2000 9:12 AM
Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] Best Hard drive manufacturer?


> I have to agree with you. I do all the hardware support here at a small
> college and not a week goes by that I don't have to replace a WD hard
> drive. I applaud their diagnostics and the speed with which I recieve
> replacements for warranteed hard drives, but it does seem to be an awful
> frequent occurence. The people we buy our computers from use WD's  so I
> don't have much say in the matter. I just built a new pc for myself and
got
> one of the new IBM drives. I would also like to hear of other users
> experience with Western Digital drives.
>
> David Jarrett
>
> t 11:26 AM 9/15/00 -0400, you wrote:
> >        Of all the components that I replace for people, Western Digital
hard
> >drives seem to be what I replace most often. I thought they made good
hard
> >drives, but now I'm starting to wonder. I have probably installed 150 WD
> >hard drives in the past three years, and have replaced about a dozen (not
> >all of them were ones that I installed)
> >        Has anyone had better luck with another brand?
> >
> >
> >
> >      Elizabeth Boston

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