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Date:      Thu, 23 Mar 2006 08:33:36 -0600
From:      David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net>
To:        FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: favorite ATA/SATA hard disk brand?
Message-ID:  <20060323143336.GA20812@Grumpy.DynDNS.org>
In-Reply-To: <4422A683.5060707@dial.pipex.com>
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On Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 01:45:39PM +0000, Alex Zbyslaw wrote:
> >
> I'm sure they did sell everything, but it wouldn't have had the same
> dramatic effect to say that :-)  IMHO, the duff deskstar was an
> anomaly and it certainly wouldn't (and hasn't!) put me off buying
> Hitachi.

Ditto. IBM screwed up for a while about 5 years ago, got their act
together, and decided they no longer wanted to be in that business.

I've had better luck with IBM/Hitachi and Seagate than Maxtor. Had a
really bad time way way back with some 230 MB (yes, million) Western
Digital drives and haven't been interested enough in a WD offering since
to give them another try.

Having said that, have (4) 300G Seagate drives coming today, (2) ATA,
(2) SATA. Have probably jinxed myself and those drives.

-- 
David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@HiWAAY.net
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Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad.



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