On Sep 22, 2008, at 10:52 AM, H. Halverson wrote:
What drive manufacturer makes good drives?
Is None a valid response?
At this point, it isn't so much who makes a good drive as it is who
makes a less sucky drive. Western Digital and Maxtor are both
consumer/commodity drives. Their quality control is lower, but that
is directly related to their price per gb being lower.
In the end, buy whatever drive you can afford and expect that any
drive you buy may be dead in 5 years time. Then keep good regular
backups and spend your time and money worrying about something that
you can actually control.
(Personally, I think Seagate makes reliable drives, as does
Fujitsu... that said, I buy Western Digital and Maxtor drives on a
regular basis because they are almost always a good bit cheaper than
everyone else.... although I have stopped buying the Western Digital
MyBook series of drives as I've had several that have either totally
died soon after purchase, or worse, have flakey performance and end
up locking up the entire firewire bus.... I've not had similar
problems with the Maxtor external USB2/Firewire drives, so far those
have all been fine, but with Maxtor, I know that I will only get 3-5
years life out of the drive before it develops regular bad blocks and/
or totally dies).
-chris
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