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. -- Russ Poffenberger Engineering Specialist Schlumberger Technologies ATE DOMAIN: [log in to unmask] 150 Baytech Drive San Jose, Ca. 95134 Voice: (408)586-6718 FAX: (408)586-4675 Visit our website regularly for FAQs, articles, how-to's, tech tips and much more http://freepctech.com