hard drive noise

[Matthew Carpenter]

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Chong Yu Meng wrote:

>
> 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?
>
My last Seagate was a 500mb SCSI drive, if you guys can remember.
It's been a while.  I ended up simply removing the drive because I
didn't have spare room for such a limited return.  Heck, nowdays I can
get that on Flash drive.

I've had good experiences with WD and Quantum, and the real F goes to
the Maxtor drives I've used.  Talk about noisy!  I thought I was
sitting next to a teletype with all the chatter.  It's no wonder they
failed quickly.  then again, each new line is capable of sucking,
regardless of vendor.  Like Quantum had BigFoot and Fireball drives.
IIRC, the Fireball drives were great for me, and the one that did die
was covered under a 3 year warrantee and replaced without hassle.  All
drives die, so it's good to have a backup schedule.

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