Quoting Russell Gadd <russ.mail.lists@???>:
> m.nuttall@??? wrote:
> > Quoting Keith Edmunds <kae@???>:
> >
> >> On Mon, 21 Apr 2008 18:09:33 +0100, tony.lambert@??? said:
> >>
> >>> Does anyone have any horror stories about certain brands of hard drive,
> >>> and would avoid at all costs ?
> >> Ask enough people and you'll get all brands covered. If any one disk
> >> manufacturer consistently produced bad disks, they'd go out of business.
> A
> >> lot of people seem to dislike Maxtor: we used them for a long time in
> >> servers without problems. What does that prove? Nothing, really. I was
> one
> >> of many bitten by the IBM DeskStar (aka "DeathStar") drives, which put me
> >> off them, but I'm sure IBM drives today will not suffer the same problem.
> >
> > IBM hard drive business is owned by hitachi now i think.
> >
> > Maxtor is owned by someone seagate? and is used as a cheap/low end brand.
> >
> > Custom PC magazine has done some good tests this month on hard drives with
> the
> > samsung 750GB being the fastest sata drive.
> >
> > Martin N
> >
> I had 2 maxtors in my PC and one overheated (probably not cooled enough)
> so replaced it with a Samsung (from quietness comparisons). This ran
> quiet and cooler than the other Maxtor (both located in the same place
> with some cooling mounts) so bought another Samsung and flogged the
> Maxtor on Ebay. So far very happy with them (over 2 years now).
Yes i have been very happy with my samsungs pata and sata.
The seagate 250Gb pata drive is quite a bit noisy than the samsung HDDs i have.
Martin N
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