[KLUG Advocacy] Re: New hard drives?

[Mike Williams]

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>From: Bruce Smith <bruce@armintl.com>
>To: advocacy@kazoolug.org
>Date: 23 Nov 2002 11:56:52 -0500
>Subject: [KLUG Advocacy] New hard drives?
>Reply-To: advocacy@kalamazoolinux.org
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>I remember back when a few KLUG volunteers agreed that IBM and Fujitsu
>made the highest quality hard drives.  I was personally one who had
>great luck with IBM drives.  But times are a changing . . .
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>A few months ago IBM had some serious quality problems with their
>drives, and there was talk of them selling their HDD division (did that
>ever happen?).  And a couple weeks ago there was an article about
>Fujitsu shipping 4.5 million (or some large number) of potentially
>defective hard drives.
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I'm pretty sure the sale of Big Blue's hard drive division is final, or 
nearly so.  Hitachi was the buyer, I think.  Can't say anything useful 
at all about their drives after the sale, but I'm one of the victims of 
the now-infamous 75GXP drives.

>So, what's the latest preference for DEPENDABLE NEW hard drives?
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Unfortunately, reliability problems don't usually show up until a drive 
line has been in the field for a while.  When I bought my pair of IBM's 
they were the undisputed kings on storagereview.com and other places.  I 
think Seagate's always been good.  I've never liked Maxtor.  Western 
Digital had some QC problems a few years ago, but seem to be redeeming 
themselves now.  Their 8 meg cache 1200jb or whatever seems to be 
everybody's favorite now (which just means it's the fastest).  BUT, as 
mentioned, so was the IBM 75GXP when I bought them.