On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 04:36:45PM -0700, Michael Torrie wrote: > > The original question still stands. I hear folks on this list and other > places saying they won't ever buy seagate again. So what are they > buying? Maxtor? WD (which is seagate again)? Hitachi?
I used to buy Seagates exclusively because they had a 5-year warranty. >From now on, I'll buy the cheapest drive with a 3-year warranty (as long as the particular model doesn't get bad reviews). And I still believe in backups as much as ever. By the way, I consider hard drive failures inevitable, and I don't take it personally when a disk dies. Just make sure that it's easy to recover by actually trying it. Recover everything to a spare system and make sure that it doesn't take long to do. -- Andrew McNabb http://www.mcnabbs.org/andrew/ PGP Fingerprint: 8A17 B57C 6879 1863 DE55 8012 AB4D 6098 8826 6868 -------------------- BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. ___________________________________________________________________ List Info (unsubscribe here): http://uug.byu.edu/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
