On Wed, 16 Jun 2004 18:40:06 +0100, Mike Woods wrote: >> > I dont know about today but seagate drives used to have real longevity > problems years ago (back in my amiga days :)) >>
That was probably before Seagate bought the small disk product line from Imprimis/MPI/CDC. For a while after that it was pretty obvious which Seagate drives had which heritage. My sample space is pretty small. I have bought only a handfull of disk drives in recent years. About half were Maxtor and half were Seagate. My only failure was a Maxtor drive and since it was still under warranty Maxtor FedExed me a replacement within a day or so. I feel pretty good about either brand. I would tend to favor Seagate. (As an aside: I remember when Imprimis announced it was dropping its 8" product line. I asked a salesman why they did that. He explained that data densities were getting too high and asked, "Why would anyone want 5 GB on a single spindle?") Dan Strick _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
