On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, J.C.Wren wrote:
www.storagereview.com is a good place to get
comparisons of HDs. And you
can contribute your experiences to the database. The database covers a lot
of drives, but was initially started because of the 60GXP and 75GXPs. IBM
was claiming there was no problem, the rest of the world proved them
horribly wrong.
Crapola. I hate having to deal with this shit. Is IBM offering a swap?
I bought this drive last Spring after I was hit by a virus. I still have
my receipt. I don't want to wait until this thing dies to have to go out
and spend another $80 (not to mention the countless hours of installing
and copying over files).
Personally, I'll stick with Maxtors. I've
got 10 Maxtors HDs currently
spinning here (ranging from 27GB 5400 RPM to 80GB 7200 RPM drives), and this
D740X is the first bad one. And Maxtor has (or had) a damn good warranty.
There's been some talk about Maxtor and WD going from 3 year warranties to 1
year. Something about getting too expensive, since HDs rarely stay in
service 3 years (in the real world. Don't start talking here about how
we're all still running drives from the '70's yada yada yada. We're not
a
real cross section of the market).
The Seagate ST-225 in my Apple Sider ][ hard drive is still going strong
after about 17 years of service.
Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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