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shakran · 11-28-2003, 08:36 PM

I've had a lot of different drives over the years. By FAR the most reliable has been Western Digital, to the point that I won't buy anything else now. I actually still have my first Western Digital drive, a giant 120 meg, which has been running every day for at least 2 hours (used to be much more when the 486 it's in was my main box) since 1993. That's twice the rule-of-thumb life expectancy for a drive. Sucker's even still quiet. The only reason I've EVER had to buy a new drive since I started using WD is 'cause I run out of room eventually. My quantum, seagate, maxtor, and IBM drives all died, but I have yet to have a WD crap out on me, and that includes all the WD's I've installed in clients computers as well.

11-28-2003, 08:36 PM	#3 (permalink)
shakran Tone.	I've had a lot of different drives over the years. By FAR the most reliable has been Western Digital, to the point that I won't buy anything else now. I actually still have my first Western Digital drive, a giant 120 meg, which has been running every day for at least 2 hours (used to be much more when the 486 it's in was my main box) since 1993. That's twice the rule-of-thumb life expectancy for a drive. Sucker's even still quiet. The only reason I've EVER had to buy a new drive since I started using WD is 'cause I run out of room eventually. My quantum, seagate, maxtor, and IBM drives all died, but I have yet to have a WD crap out on me, and that includes all the WD's I've installed in clients computers as well.