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Gaybucks · 07-17-2008, 09:55 AM

I've used pretty much every brand of drive out there over the years, and my theory is that all the drive manufacturers get together once a year and decide who's going to have a run of crap drives that year.

I've had a ton of failures with Western Digital and Maxtor and the old IBMs (before they became Hitachi). On the contrary, so far, I've had only one failure out of all the Seagates I've used. But I think it's luck of the draw to a large extent.

I finally decided that a company willing to put a 5 year warranty on its drives must have some reason to believe that it's drives are reliable, and a company (in this case, Western Digital) that only puts a one-year warranty on their drives must realize they are crap. (In fairness, WD has now reinstated 3 year warranties.)

The only drives that I've *never* had a failure with, ever, are Samsung drives, but they aren't easy to find, and they are generally not the highest capacity drives available either.

07-17-2008, 09:55 AM
Gaybucks Confirmed User Join Date: May 2004 Location: Sacramento, CA Posts: 451	I've used pretty much every brand of drive out there over the years, and my theory is that all the drive manufacturers get together once a year and decide who's going to have a run of crap drives that year. I've had a ton of failures with Western Digital and Maxtor and the old IBMs (before they became Hitachi). On the contrary, so far, I've had only one failure out of all the Seagates I've used. But I think it's luck of the draw to a large extent. I finally decided that a company willing to put a 5 year warranty on its drives must have some reason to believe that it's drives are reliable, and a company (in this case, Western Digital) that only puts a one-year warranty on their drives must realize they are crap. (In fairness, WD has now reinstated 3 year warranties.) The only drives that I've never had a failure with, ever, are Samsung drives, but they aren't easy to find, and they are generally not the highest capacity drives available either. __________________ Gaybucks.com 100% exclusive American guys - hosted movie galleries - NATS - Boyfunk.com - Boysfeetclub.com - AJsCloset.com- SkylerDeVoss.com ICQ 272-995-402