5 May
2005
5 May
'05
7:16 a.m.
Rumor has it that Jim Leonard may have mentioned these words:
Joe R. wrote:
Yup... run 'em for years.
You may be right but I THOUGHT it was Fujitsu.
Whatever it was, it's
working fine. It's already outlasted several Maxtors and Seagates. I just
checked the device manager and it says that it's an IBM drive so it doesn't
identify the actual manufacturer.
IBM drives are most definitely Hitachi. And that being said, IBM/Hitachi drives are the only
drives I've never
had fail on me.
Like so many others... depends on which drives... ;-)
I've had great luck with the TravelStars and UltraStars... but the
Death^WDeskStars I tend to avoid; Altho they're not as bad as some drives
I've used, I've not had quite as good luck with them as Western Digital.
I run them in mirrors: 2 75GXP 30GB, 2 120GB, 2
180GB... not a single
failure and the 75GXPs are going on 5 years now. And they're fast!!
I was amazed -- I have a 40G TravelStar in an external Firewire case, I'd
intended it for just backup / "quasi-online" storage (stuff I wouldn't need
fast or often) but it was less than 10% slower than the internal WD 30G
drive I had - more than fast enough to use for "normal use" so I do! It was
a very nice surprise... ;-)
If I had the cash, I'd replace the 4200rpm Toshiba drive in my laptop with
one of those slickety-neato 7200rpm Hitachi drives... but alas, I don't.
[[ I do, however, think I can talk the wifey in into an IDE interface for
my CoCo finally... I happen to have a NOS IDE 2.2G Castlewood removable
drive that I think would be *schweetness* with that... ;-) ]]
Laterz,
Roger "Merch" Merchberger
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