Getting that new hardware itch...

[Leon Goldstein]

Kurt Wall wrote:

>If you are talking hard drives, I'd still have to go for Seagate
>SATA drives. They can be had at very competitive prices at newegg.com.
>They might not be as cheap as Maxtor or Western Digital, but, for my
>money, the reliability is worth the small premium. I think Hitachi
>bought IBM's DeathStar line of disks, so I'd stay away from those, too.
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BestBuy was selling 120 GB Seagate drives for $40 (automatic rebate) two 
weeks ago and OfficeMax has the 160 GB Seagate this week at about $60.  
When I bought the 120 GB drive, I had a choice: the same drives are 
manufactured in China, Thailand or Singapore.  I picked out a Singapore 
drive for no particular reason other than they have been assembling HD's 
there longer.

I have three WD 80 GB Jumbo's in operation as well as a Seagate 80 GB.  
Spinrite 6.0 reported no bad sectors on any of the WD drives but the 
some bad sectors on the Seagate.  I always run Spinrite on a new drive 
before installing an OS to check it out and to let it reach operating 
temperature first.

-- 
Leon A. Goldstein

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