oberon

I think that's shortsighted. In the last 15 years, I've seen all manufacturers (including your beloved WD) rise and fall in terms of quality, space, and performance, relative to the others.

5 years ago, IBM used to make the best in both SCSI and IDE. Now people shy away from Hitachi because of the fabled DeathStar. It used to be like that for WD too, in the mid 1990s. Since then they've steadily improved.

Of course, I have a 210MB WD disk still in use at home in a DHCP/proxy server. Original manufacture date: 1991.

And nowadays I buy Maxtor/Quantum SCSI and WD IDE. But I reevaluate the brand choices once a year just to make sure the drives last and work well. I suggest that you do the same to avoid getting ripped off in the future.

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