I've had the opportunity to buy a fair number of medium level consumer drives, and I feel like most are good with some rare but absolutely horrible cases for most of the manufacturers. The absolute best drive experience I had was with a Quantum drive which came with a five year warranty. I picked it up on discount for $400.00. I then used it as a primary drive on a data-base server, and it was used hard for 4-1/2 years. It finally went belly up, (which caused no problems). For kicks I called up Quantum and told them it was dead - they told me they had nothing comparable so they would cut me a check. Turns out the check was for their list price, so I ended getting a little more than $500.00 back. Pretty sweet, Kent Andy Zbikowski wrote: > > > Do you know more about this VIA WD problem? I have 3 Western Digital drives > > and I just ordered an MSI board with a VIA chipset. Hopefully I wont see the > > problem since my drives will use an add on Escalade 6400 ATA RAID controller, > > and not use the onboard IDE controller. > > Myself, I don't really trust WD drives. A few bad experiences in the past. I > don't put much faith in Seagate drives either, but at least one of my > Seagate drives has been good since I got it (and didn't fail every three > mounths) Thankfully, dieman hasn't had any issues with the same drive in his > machine, so it was probally my computer that was causing issues with the > drive. > > Haven't really had any issues with my Maxtor drive. We did have an issue > with the maxtor drive we were going to put in destiny.ringworld.org, but it > was a really fscking bad drive. A semi-quick RMA took care of it (and got us > a slightly bigger drive to boot) and we haven't had any issues with the > drive running 24/7 since. > > I've had Zero issues with my IBM SCSI drives, nice fast and reliable. =) > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org