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agnusdei

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i was looking around for the ultimate quiet IDE hard disk and what from i read from several experts, the new seagate barracudas are the best. i am looking into buying a 60gb one. i needed some some info on the life of seagate drives. if anyone has any past experience with them, please tell me. also, what is another good quiet hard drive? i know IBM makes some decent quiet ones but, i couldnt remember if they were the 60gxp ones or the 75. thanks! -davo ?
 
ya the new barracuda's look pretty nice .. In the past seagate's IDE has had mixed reputation (depending on who you talk to) , seagates seems to have cleared all that up, but the SCSI drives have also had good reputations as far as i know, i think you'd be making a good choice .. good luck ..
-neural
 
Wish I had some links but from my experience and from what I read about a year or so ago (maybe two at most) they have the lowest RMA rating on their SCSI drives and this soemwhat also translated to their IDE drives... you can still get a lemon but for the most part they have the best thing going... reliability. Enough said (If I remember correctly I think their RMA rate on teh SCSI drives was something like half of th company in second place and their IDE RMA rate was something like one third or one quarter). Granted that may have been a eyar ago but I still believe in them and they still are working for me and my clients/businesses/friends/family (all told I've mixed and matched it up for friends and family and always do a seagate drive for businesses and clients and I'd say that out of the friends and family I still have yet to have one go bad, that I know about, over three years... that's out of 100+ computers... maybe I'm lucky but I think that speaks for itself). On the other hand (a couple of short stories) in the last 3 years I've had WD arrive DOA from the factory twice in a row after I returned a DOA OEM... that's 3 in a row.. pretty bad. Seen this happen twice in a row on Maxtors and have had to return 2 Quantums for one machine twice in the first 1.5 years. As for IBM, only one has gone bad in a row and been replaced with a working one. Not too bad but I still stick with seagate for reliability.
 
Oh and I forgot to mention that the 5+ year old drives (420MB and 2.1GB) WD's are relaible as they get... still working for me 😉

Guess it all comes down to getting lemons for IDEs but I still trust seagate in this realm.
 
well the seagate 1.0g that i got 5 years ago or so was a lemon. and the drive seagate sent me as a replacement was also a lemon. but i've heard that their drives are very good nowadays, and their scsi drives have always been good. whatever you do, avoid ibm nowadays because they have terrible failure rates.
 
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