On Tuesday 27 October 2009 22:07:00 Chris Schumann wrote: > Anthony R. Gold wrote: > > Who is making great drives? A Samsung 500GB/5400 I bought in April just > > died and I'd to benefit from any experience of who is making good ones. I > > paid $205 just 6 months ago and I see they're now down to around $80! > > > > A couple weeks ago I bought a Western Digital Scorpio Black 320GB > 7200RPM drive. It vibrated pretty badly and went right back to the > store. (The drive was very quiet, however. Almost unsettlingly quiet.) I > haven't bought a replacement yet, so I'd like suggestions too. > > Chris
I've been using WD and Seagate disks in my thinkpads for a while now with reasonably good results. I use disks a lot--my laptop is on about 21 hours a day. Because of this I treat disks like airplane parts and replace them before they break, about every 18 months. Given how cheap disks are and how much the data on them costs, I don't think it makes sense not to do this. Disks are faster, bigger and far cheaper than ever. But I don't think they're built as well, so in your case Chris of the unit vibrating, I'd have gotten another and use that. I've seen various problems with disks that didn't exist with other units. I believe this is an artifact of the lesser quality of disks. 640G disks for $140 at Newegg! --STeve Andre' _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
