RIP Seagate hard drives

[James McDonald]

Disk is cheap these days, and in order to make money I'm assuming they
factor in a lower MTBF.

Warranty replacement on a cheap disk isn't going to kill the
manufacturer.... Just annoying when they fail.




On 21 February 2013 08:46, Lonni J Friedman <netllama at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
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