RIP Seagate hard drives

[Lonni J Friedman]

On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 1:44 PM, Michael Hipp <michael at redmule.com> wrote:
> On 2013-02-20 3:38 PM, C M Reinehr wrote:
>> Newegg is showing 17 3.5", 7200RPM internal hard drives from 500MB to 3TB,
>> described as "for use in power-friendly consumer and commercial desktop
>> computers", so it looks as if they're in the consumer market now.
>
> Does this mean Toshiba==Western_Digital?
>
> I've never had an opinion of Toshiba drives before, was wondering if they have
> a good rep.

I've used a few Toshiba disks, but only in laptops, and enterprise
class stuff.  They were fine, but I doubt that's the same category as
what you're considering.

At this stage, I don't think there's a significant quality delta in
any vendor's desktop class products.