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Subj : Grrrrr...
To   : Angus Mcleod
From : Belly
Date : Tue Apr 12 2005 09:25 pm

  Re: Grrrrr...
  By: Angus Mcleod to Frank Reid on Tue Apr 12 2005 09:49 am

 >  > Fortunately, I had mine in a RAID configuration with a Western Digital
 >  > WD800BB, so I didn't lose anything like he did (also, a ton of "personal"
 >  > collected stuff).  It's still in the "broken" status until I get around t
 >  > slapping another drive in there, though.
 > 
 > Jesus!  If the day has finally come that a Western Digital drive is used 
 > as a standard of reliability, it's time I drank the hemlock!

They used to suck hard back in the 90s... I think they have improved, though,
just judging by seat-of-the-pants statistics based on warranty issues with PCs
that I have sold. We stopped selling Maxtor about a year ago, when we noticed a
slight trend (didn't I say this already?)

I can tell you this though: We sold a metric assload of Samsung IDE drives a
few years ago (we stopped buying them because of supplier issues) and we have
NEVER had one come back dead. Hmmm. I need to look into them again.

     o
    (O) 
   BeLLy


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