Date: Sat, 26 May 2001 16:58:36 +1000 From: "Doug Young" <dougy@bryden.apana.org.au> To: "Andrew C. Hornback" <hornback@wireco.net>, "Thomas Lau" <lkthomas@hkicable.com>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Western Digital or IBM of Hard Disk are better? Message-ID: <008501c0e5b1$4bf20c20$8683fea9@kurley> References: <003d01c0e582$6ce91e20$0e00000a@tomcat>
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I've always tried to get IBMs, believing they had longer MTBF, however I did have a 27Gb IDE drive develop bad sectors after a year. At least it was replaced promptly (with a 45Gb one). Western Digital have always been on my "avoid at any price" list because of numerous reports from colleagues in OZ about warranty problems. In all cases the distributor refused to replace dead drives stating they were "grey" imports. WD neglected to answer any emails asking for further information so hence the blacklisting. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andrew C. Hornback" <hornback@wireco.net> To: "Thomas Lau" <lkthomas@hkicable.com>; <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Saturday, May 26, 2001 11:23 AM Subject: RE: Western Digital or IBM of Hard Disk are better? > Thomas, > > I'm sorry to hear about your troubles with IBM. Personally, I prefer their > drives to anything else out there, bar none. However, if you are not using > IBM, you might want to consider Seagate or Western Digital. There was a > rumour circulating a while back about Western Digital leaving the consumer > grade drive market, concentrating on production only for their OEM > customers. > > I personally use Western Digital and Seagate for IDE, and inherited Seagate > and Conner (talk about longevity!) SCSI drives. The ones that I purchase > anymore are IBM for either interface. > > --- Andy > > -----Original Message----- > From: Thomas Lau > To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Sent: Saturday, May 26, 2001 6:42 AM > Subject: Western Digital or IBM of Hard Disk are better? > > > well, I hear that WD of 5400RPM HD speed near 7200RPM, is it ture? > and my 34.2GB IBM HD was dead, I will not trust IBM anymore > because have problem 3times ago > I want to use IDE. not SCSI! > please make some suggestion, and please leave out your suggested HD of model > type, so it can help me to search about it, Thanks > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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