On Nov 28, 2011, at 5:57 AM, Barry Levine wrote: > on 11/28/11 8:10 AM, JohnCarmonne at carmo...@aol.com wrote: > >> LaCie doesn't make hard drives they only make the enclosure. > > IIRC, LaCie external HD's originally contained Quantum HD's - back in the > day when 40MB and 80MB was alot, and SCSI was the standard! The drives we > had lasted for years past their obsolescence, with daily use. Whereas I > can't even keep track of the Western Digital drives I've had fail. > > Wasn't Quantum was absorbed by Maxtor? Maxtor HD's in my experience have > lasted pretty well also. Of course, YMMV. > > Online backup seems like a good insurance policy to me against local data > loss due to fire etc; although I'm not making much use of it yet, other > than mailing a few important files to my gmail account - which makes no > guarantees. > > Barry >
The most drive failures I've had were the Maxtor's and 2.5 Toshiba's I have 12 Hitachi 2TB's and many Seagate drives running 24/7 no problems with these drives. But the WD's were problematic it was mostly the enclosure and not the bare drive. John Carmonne Yorba Linda CA 92886 USA MacPro 2.66 Quad Nehalem -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
