I think that most of the manufacturers mentioned before (WD, Seagate, Quantum, Fujitsu, IBM) had lemons, as well as good models and all improved the technology during the years. I just remembered that WD had for a while issues with UDMA transfers - I think they corrected it by now - but it does worth double-checking ! Maxtor drives are pretty good - most of the drives I'm using are from Maxtor. 3 yrs warranty (which I think it's a quasi standard by now). However, for higher end I'd choose IBM (having to pay the "luxury hard-drive tax" for their products). Before buying I'd check the speed, sustained and burst transfer speed, access speed, warranty, MTBF. If risk of data loss is unacceptable, there is RAID (software, as well as SCSI)... I'd stay away from IDE RAID - not (so well) supported and if you'd bleed if you lose data, then you might want to pay more and get the real thing (SCSI) ! Just my 2 cents ;-) Hope it helps ! Oleg On Friday, April 27, 2001 1:43 PM, David E. Fox [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: > > Whoa, do you think I should move to IBM drives now? > > Maxtor IMHO still makes good drives. But I went for a > 30 gig IBM Deskstar last October. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > David E. Fox Thanks for letting me > [EMAIL PROTECTED] change magnetic patterns > [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- >
