Comments | kensey: End of an era?

kensey

End of an era?

Dec 30, 2009 00:20

I may be about to do something I haven't considered in 14 years. I may buy a Western Digital hard drive.
Back in the day (1995-1997) I worked for an ISP. We also, as an occasional side business, built systems. The builders always used Maxtor hard drives and I adopted Maxtor as my go-to brand for drives. (I still have a vintage 1999 8-GB Maxtor ( Read more... )

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mrz80 January 1 2010, 06:03:56 UTC

(*blink*) Western Digital?!?!? Back in the day, as you say, and on into the first half of the 2000s, I don't think I bought or scrounged a single WD hard drive that DIDN'T fail after just a few months in-service. I'm still buying Seagate Barracuda server drives for everything, and having pretty good luck. I've got two Maxtors in the house - a mirrored pair in my server, for backing up workstations. Recently we had a power outage and one drive in the pair threw its partition table. A reformat and rebuild and all was well, but it was disconcerting. None of the Seagates have so much as flipped a bit error, SATA, IDE or SCSI. Got a stack of 18G Ultra3 Cheetahs for one-off projects like rebuilding an O2 workstation. :-)