Hello,

I'm not a network administrator or IT professional, but I have owned 3
Western Digital hard drives. My first one was a massive 1.0GB  for my
486/50. The second one was a 10.2GB for my AMD K6-2 350MHz, and my latest
one is the one I'm using now - a 20.5GB 7200 RPM for my Pentium III 800.


I've had just about no problems with these drives - the only problems I
had was some bad clusters on my 1GB. They were marked permanently bad, so
I had about 3MB of unusable space. I don't know what caused that, but I
haven't had any problems with any of my others.

I've heard it rumored from various magazines and sites that while Western
Digital was the king of hard drives for a while, IBM is re-taking it's
reign. Their drives are supposed to be top-notch now. I think I also
heard that Quantum is good.


- Hawk166_PWR (Michael Soto)
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On Fri, 15 Sep 2000 12:12:35 -0400 David Jarrett
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> 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

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