[geeks] 32 Gig 1.6" SCA drives......

[Andrew Weiss]

Nah it's from experience counting the brands that came in dead when I 
worked for two years in retail service.  Most likely to fail was roughly 
like this from least to most:

Quantum (SCSI), IBM (SCSI), Compaq (SCSI), WDigital (SCSI), 
Seagate(SCSI), Fujitsu (SCSI), Maxtor (SCSI), Conner(SCSI), Micropolis 
(SCSI), Quantum (IDE except BigFoots), Seagate (IDE), WestDigital(IDE), 
IBM (IDE), Fujitsu (IDE), Hitachi (IDE), Toshiba (IDE), Maxtor(IDE), 
Conner (IDE)

 From about 1998-2001... going from machines purchased in 1989-2001.

Most drives under 1GB seemed to fail rarely.

Troublesome drives usually were 1-10GB in size and IDE.  WDC's in iMacs 
were particularly flakey.

Andrew

On Thursday, May 2, 2002, at 04:01 PM, Peter L. Wargo wrote:

> On Thu, 2 May 2002, Andrew Weiss wrote:
>
>> Heh I think I was talking about their line of IDE... but that's all I
>> came across most of the time. (the Japanese drives in general weren't
>> great especially notebook disks... Fujitsu, Toshiba, Hitachi etc.)
>
> I think the cause of your weird deams is the crack you're smoking - the
> *only* drives that I've seen consistant reliability from are those you
> listed.  I used to trust IBM, but no more.  Seagate is a joke.
>
> -Pete
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