Toshiba HDD's?

[Slickone]

Are Toshiba HDD's as reliable as other branded HDD's (Western Digital for example)? Someone has a 40GB for sale cheap (with supposedly a weeks use) and I need one for an older PC I still use. They seem to be made by Fujitsu and Wikipedia mentions a lawsuit Fujitsu lost about faulty drives. Was that only certain models?

 

[Elixer]

Used HDs are really not worth it.
No warranty, and you never know what the former owner did with it.

HDs are pretty cheap now, so just buy a new one, and save your headaches for something else.

 

[RebateMonger]

I've never seen any Toshibas except as failed laptop drives. Several years ago they seemed to have a minor failure epidemic in their consumer laptop series.

I have no idea if they are good or bad today.

As Elixer notes, I have a no-buy rule about anything used that spins.

 

[bryanl]

Toshiba bought Fujitsu's troubled HD business last year, and I believe production of Fujitsu's consumer level HDs has been discontinued because of this. Model numbers starting with "MK" are for Toshiba designs. I've owned only 4 Toshiba drives: 2 floppies, a 160GB 2.5", and a 100MB 5.25" x 3" H.