Replacement Hard Drive
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Think Im going to get the cheapest 500g, 7200rpm drive. Any thoughts?
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822148374
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822148374
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A TOSHIBA DRIVE FAILING!!!!?????!?!?!!!! NO ******* WAY!!!!!!!1!!!
Not surprised. Get a WD replacement and be happy.
Nevermind, I see you said the old one was a WD. I've had 15-20 WD drives and have never had a failure. You must have pissed off the tech gods.
Not surprised. Get a WD replacement and be happy.
Nevermind, I see you said the old one was a WD. I've had 15-20 WD drives and have never had a failure. You must have pissed off the tech gods.
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At some point or another, pretty much every manufacturer has experienced some kind of chronic and systemic problem with one family of drives that makes everybody say "Control Data / Rodime / MiniScribe / Quantum / Shugart / Conner / PrairieTek / WD / IBM / Hitachi / Seagate / Maxtor / Fuji / etc hard drives are crap."
It's not not possible to say that one particular manufacturer's drives, on the whole, are better or worse.
Well, there's SyQuest...
It's not not possible to say that one particular manufacturer's drives, on the whole, are better or worse.
Well, there's SyQuest...
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Well, they might all have their bad luck, but I've surely never heard anyone say "Seagate makes the best drives ever", same for Toshiba and half of the others on your list. I use Seagate drives for skeet shooting practice. Give me the option, and it would likely always be the WD, maybe the Fuji.
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It's only within the past decade or so that they've lost their golden-idol standing. And it's not that they got any worse, everybody else just caught up to them performance-wise.
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Well, they might all have their bad luck, but I've surely never heard anyone say "Seagate makes the best drives ever", same for Toshiba and half of the others on your list. I use Seagate drives for skeet shooting practice. Give me the option, and it would likely always be the WD, maybe the Fuji.
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