Steve Collins <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Hi Kevin,
>
> I noticed that you didn't mention Seagate.  I would look very seriously
> at these drives as part of your analysis.  We have moved almost
> exclusively to Seagate (we are Maxtor, WD and Seagate authorized reps so
> have no particular bias based on allegiance).  The drivers are amazingly
> quiet, very fast and almost bullet proof.

Of the major brands (Maxtor, Seagate, WD, IBM, etc), I am not sure there is one
"better" or "best" brand. I think it is mostly luck of the draw. I have had
great experiences with Seagate SCSI drives. On IDE drives though, I had a bad
Seagate that took a long time to diagnose, mainly because the symptoms seemed
like something else, memory, CPU, or video.

The system, almost from the start, would hang randomly. I changed memory, CPU,
updated drivers, etc. No luck. I lived with it (about a year) until recently
when it would start hanging or crashing, the disk would start making funny
noises. Occassionaly, when doing a reset (no power off), the disk would not be
recognized by the BIOS at POST time.

I changed it out for an IBM, and it has been 100% rock solid for two months now
(I haven't even rebooted it!).

This is running Windows 2000 Pro.


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