First of all, nearly everyone used IBM drives at one point. When you could produce the volume needed at a price you couldn't argue with why not buy? My pile of dead or nearly dead laptop drives is 80% IBM/Hitachi. 19% Fujitsu & Toshiba. Maybe a couple Seagate and not more than one or two WD or Samsung. Really don't see WD laptop drives that often.
FWIW, IBM only sold 70% of its drive business (or the assets) to Hitachi. That was shortly after the beginning of the DeathStar debacle. Buying a Mac (laptop) is a really poor excuse to get a new computer. It isn't as if the hardware is more or less reliable than any other computer. One thing I do recommend to *anybody* considering a Mac, get the extened warranty no questions asked. They cost way too much to repair and I refuse to work on them any more. The hardware nazi, Mr O. <roger wrote:> Also, Dell laptops use to use IBM hard drives until they sold their hard drive business overseas to Hitachi. --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Opinions sought: > > I have a friend with a Dell laptop that's old enough to be out > of > warranty, but not too old to be useful. > The 20G hard drive in it failed, so I replaced it for him with > a 60G > drive a few months ago. > Now that has failed as well, and even if I mount it in a USB > enclosure, > it still fails. So the questions are; > Is this a pair of bad drives, or one bad controller? RMA the > drive? Can > the controller be replaced, and if so > is it worth it? Should I just tell him to buy a Mac (because > he's > thinking of going back to Windows)? In this instance, data > recovery > would be nice, but it's not a huge concern. > ____________________________________________________________________________________Get the free Yahoo! toolbar and rest assured with the added security of spyware protection. http://new.toolbar.yahoo.com/toolbar/features/norton/index.php _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list euglug@euglug.org http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug