[Eug-lug] Damaged hard drive

[marbux]

On 5/18/07, roger <roger at eskimo.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-05-18 at 15:18 -0700, abrown at peak.org wrote:
> > Oops!  My bad.  It's not an IBM.  Its a WD2500 Cavaliar.
> > WD2500JB-00EVA0 dated 16 Dec 2003.
> > Anybody have one of those I can trade?
> > --
> > Allen
>
> If it's WD, you might as well toss it.  They were good for awhile until
> they apparently started having them made with either an overseas parts,
> or it was an engineering defect.
>

+1

> Several years ago, I started buying Seagate instead... WD is very testy
> with weather (hot & cold).  My seagate external drive survived -10F to
> +150F... plus survived east to west US coast drives (ie. >8,000ft to <
> slightly below sea level).  Including teh fact it also operated in +110%
> humidity below 0F.
>

I've had a bad attitude about Seagate quality since the days of DR DOS
and 4DOS. But I haven't given them another chance since then. I have
had no problems with Maxtor's drives whatsoever. The only reason I
ever replaced them was the need for higher capacity and speed. IIRC,
what was my first Maxtor is still running on my step-daughter's
formerly Windows 98 machine (now MEPIS). I was concerned when Seagate
absorbed Maxtor a month or two back.  But maybe I should read that as
them agreeing with you that Seagate's quality is acceptable these
days. :-)

Best regards,

Marbux