hard drive noise

[Chong Yu Meng]

Tony Alfrey wrote:
> Net Llama! wrote:
> 
>> On Mon, 9 May 2005, Ken Moffat wrote:
>>
>>> Anyone notice Western Digital to be a bit noisier than Maxtor drives?
>>>
>>> Just wondering, I get a bit of noise from both my new WD drives.
>>
>>
>>
>> s/noisier/crappier
>>
>> yes  :)
>>
> 
> I took the motors out of a bunch of WD hard drives and bolted them 
> together to make a nice wood chipper.
> 

Are Western Digital drives that bad? I've had bad experiences with IBM 
and Quantum drives before (short life spans), but never with Western 
Digital or Seagate. Of course, the last time I used a WD drive was a 
80MB (not 80GB) drive many years ago. That drive simply refused to die, 
and I was using it until 1998, I think, when I moved on to bigger 
capacities.

Has the quality declined so badly?

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