Thanks Chuck for the link, at least it match my Hitachi experience, I had
two Hitachi HDs dead within two years of use. My personal preference is
Seagate for 3.5" drives but I have 2.5" as the 2nd drive inside or outside
the computers using both Fujitsu and Seagate. Now I have around 10 2.5" HDs,
I prefer it for lower power consumption, lower heat means longer life
usually and I have no 2.5" drive failure so far.
C.H.Ling
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chuck Norcutt" <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Hard drives are a cut throat business these days and have been for quite
> some time with some players being absorbed and some bowing out. A slip
> in quality is not out of the question but I have no knowledge that such
> has actually occurred.
>
> What I suggest you do is call upon the thousands of reviewers at Newegg
> where you'll also find pretty good prices for what you ultimately want
> to buy.
>
> This is a link to Newegg's 17 top selling drives
> <http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=100007603%204802&IsNodeId=1&name=Top%20Sellers>
> If you sort the list by best customer review results you'll see that the
> Western Digital Caviar WD6401AALS 640GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" drive
> floats to the top of the pack with the highest possible rating which is
> made up of votes from 1,670 customers. But despite the good ratings
> you'll see in the detail that 9% of the customers are not happy, rating
> it poor (2%) or very poor (7%). Most of the complaints look like it
> died in days, weeks or months. But I don't think you're likely to do
> better than this. The next drive in the list (the Samsung) has very
> similar ratings as does the next on the list (the Seagate). Looking
> farther down the list I see that the first Hitachi listed has exactly
> the same kind of numbers but the next Hitachi has 18% rating very poor
> instead of the more normal 7%.
>
> I suspect we the customers are now doing the burn-in testing that used
> to be done at the factory. Well, I know IBM did burn-in testing but I
> don't know about anyone else. Bite the bullet and buy what you have to
> but be sure to buy two so you have a backup. :-)
>
> Chuck Norcutt
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