On Friday June 16 2006 19:42, jdow wrote: > And of course today Seagate, Maxtor, and Quantum are all one company. > <sigh> That leaves WD, perhaps Hitachi, Samsung, and Seagate. If I > did not purchase Seagate I'd probably go for Samsung. Their drives are > solid if unimpressive performers in my experience. I'm sure you're right about the commodity lines - I've tried to make the case for the more expensive models, but didn't get far. Currently, we are solely purchasing Seagate with the five year warranties. I did have my first Seagate go down about two weeks ago - it was brand new practically, and wasn't in a mission critical environment. They warrantied it via a form on the web - it took all of about two minutes to get the RMA - that was a pleasant departure from my experiences with Maxtor. I've become a backup fanatic because of these experiences - all system drives are imaged, and we do regular data backups to external hot-swap firewire and, more recently, to external hot-swap SATA's which have really pleased us with their super-fast performance, especially the SATA2 300's. I've lately installed Samsung 100gb laptop drives in a couple of machines - we'll see how that goes... -- Claude Jones Brunswick, MD, USA
