On Jul 9, 2010, at 10:34 AM, t...@io.com wrote:
On Jul 8, 8:48 pm, John Carmonne <carmo...@aol.com> wrote:
Check out Newegg i've been getting Hitachi 2TBs for $109. 00 about
once a month whwn they throw a deal. My PM G5 has five of them.
They have the Seagate LP ST32000542AS 2TB drive for $110 right now,
but it has pretty terrible reviews. Then again, it also has the
most reviews and folks with a bad experience are much more likely to
review that folks with a good experience.
So, I wonder, does this drive have an exceptional failure rate, or has
Newegg just sold so many of them that they've managed to drum up a few
score failures in the normal course of events?
Generally, I like Seagates, because I assume that if they're giving a
five year warranty, and every return blows their profit on one or two
drives, then they'll put a little more effort into quality control.
However, this particular model only has the three year warranty.
Jeff Walther
First Seagate and Hitachi have been very good to me warranty wise,
All my total losses have been Maxtor and IBM.
I do read reviews and make note of the complaint as to what machine
is it on also the the problem. I can discount a lot of them because I
can
usually pick out the WindBloze users and the operator errors. I will
buy the Seagates first if the price is right I stay away from WD
because of
an eSATA problem but I'm sure that's the WD enclosure. So I will buy
the Seagates and Hitachis whoever is cheapest and 7200 RPM.
John Carmonne
Yorba Linda USA
Sent from my PM G5 2.7
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