I am constantly asked these kinds of questions in my classes.
For hard disks, I tell people to stick with Maxtor, Seagate,
and Western Digital (in no particular order) and I tell them
to divide the total MEGAbytes by the cost and get the one
with the most bytes per dollar.

Jim Meagher
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> [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Roxanne Pierce

> I was just asked what criteria one should use for choosing a hard
> drive today.