I agree that the new WD drives are not as good as the ones three years ago. I own
a consulting company and we used to recomend WD a few years back, but will not buy
them now. The best best drives in IDE that we have found are IBM and Segate. I
think the IBM are fasters, but both have been good on reliability.
dmk
Zoki wrote:
> On Mon, 11 May 1998, Damond Walker wrote:
>
> ->
> -> Is it just me, or do Western Digital drives fail as much for everyone
> ->else as they do for me. I've had to replace the same 1.2 gig drive three
> ->times in the last year. I just replaced this drive (via RMA) about two
> ->weeks ago...it's failed before I could send the old one in! Sure, getting a
> ->new drive every six months or so is good thing (I guess) but I'd rather not
> ->have to do that. :)
> -> So, basically, I'm about ready to give up on WD drives... What I would
> ->like to know from the rest of you is what would be a good IDE drive to drop
> ->in its place? They're all pretty cheap these days so price isn't really an
> ->issue...I'm looking for a reliable IDE drive. Something I could shoot,
> ->throw off a building, immerse in salt water, etc, etc, etc....
> ->
>
> Hi Damond,
>
> Problem with such a tip is that it's most of the time very subjective. I
> have a 2nd WD drive for the last 5 years (a 650Mb) which has worked
> without problies.
>
> I bought a Quantum Fireball (3,2Gb) a year ago and it's working well.
> It's a pritty fast drive too, for an E-IDE. Depending on the space you
> need I think it's big enough. I have Win 3.11 and Linux on it, together
> with swap space all over it and still have almost 1Gb in reserve.
>
> BTW, you might want to rethink your reliability test of a drive...:-)
>
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