Seagate to Purchase Maxtor

On 12/22/2005 at 9:29 AM Philip Pemberton wrote: like It's pretty surprising how many drives I don't remember because they had such a short working life. JTS was one of the first Indian-made drives and didn't even have the industry-standard drive dimensions (was too long by about 1/2"). Seagate isn't infallible, either. I have a few of the ST15230WC 4GB 3.5" SCSI drives. Miserable, hot-at-as-a-pistol drives. I think I still have every Conner (under 500MB) that I ever purchased. There were some bright spots in other manufacturers lines--the WD 31200 Caviar drives were a bright spot in an otherwise dim line. Lots of dim spots--the early Quantum XT-era MFM drives (e.g. 30MB) weren't bad, but the Bigfoot IDE were awful, regardless of type. Cheers, Chuck