The company I work for bought a bunch of Quantums when they were replacing all their 400-800MB Western Digitals with 1+GB drives. Most of the Quantums were dead within a year. Most of the replaced WD drives are still running at an age of 4-5 years in other machines. Personnally, I've never had a Western Digital drive fail on me. They were eventually replaced because they were too small. Realistically, most manufacturers have gone through spells of some sort of problem. Seagates had a lot of problems with stiction a few years ago. Western Digital more recently had a controller problem and had to recall a bunch of drives. Maxtor was a slower drive than anyone for many years when they first started out. Anyone can find a reason not to like a particular drive. ----- Original Message ----- From: Patrick Wood <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Friday, September 15, 2000 12:37 PM Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] Best Hard drive manufacturer? > I have had very good luck w/quantum > especially in the bigfoot layout > > -----Original Message----- > From: PCBUILD - Personal Computer Hardware discussion List > [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Elizabeth Boston > Sent: Friday, September 15, 2000 10:26 AM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: [PCBUILD] Best Hard drive manufacturer? > > 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? Visit our website regularly for FAQs, articles, how-to's, tech tips and much more http://nospin.com - http://nospin.org