Nobile Hard DriveM

[pgx]

I had a 2-month old Seagate 60Gig 2.5" drive fail with multiple bad
sectors. Seagate says they will replace it with a refurbished drive,
and the owner doesn't want a refurb. If I have to buy a new drive,
what brand do you recommend?

Thanks

Phil

 

[beenthere]

I had a 2-month old Seagate 60Gig 2.5" drive fail with multiple bad
sectors. Seagate says they will replace it with a refurbished drive,
and the owner doesn't want a refurb. If I have to buy a new drive,
what brand do you recommend?

Hi Phil. What does the Seagate warrantee say.
And the refurb is probably a `return` that had nothing
wrong with it when it was tested.
Personally I run 3 Seagates, and would recommend them.

 

[Mike T.]

I had a 2-month old Seagate 60Gig 2.5" drive fail with multiple bad
sectors. Seagate says they will replace it with a refurbished drive,
and the owner doesn't want a refurb. If I have to buy a new drive,
what brand do you recommend?

Thanks

Phil

Anything, and then sell the seagate on ebay for MUCH more than you paid for
it. The refurb. will likely be more reliable than new. -Dave

 

[Clint]

The only one I'd recommend AGAINST is Maxtor. I know that Seagate recently
purchased Maxtor, but I doubt there's been many improvements in their
processes or standards yet.

Personally, I like Seagate, but haven't had any experience with their 2.5"
drives. All mine have been the Hitatchi 7200rpm 60GB drives. Had no
problems with them, either.

Clint

 

[David Sontag]

Yes .. not Maxtor... I have two of their drives fail recently. I use
mostly Western Digital now ... but my new builds will use Seagate for
the five year garantee (sp)

David

 

[Randella]

First,
Refurbs are not worth the time. Higher chance of failure than a new
factory drive, yet you know that it is going to work whereas a new
drive might have bad sectors...

Toshiba makes the best laptop hard drives, I agree that Hitachi drives
are quality too...

Seagate normally makes decent drives...

Drives to avoid:

Western Digital has a known track record of failure, not quite as bad
as Maxtor but close...

I am told IBM drives are junk, no personal experience with them, but I
am told they are junk.

Hope that helps!

-Randy
King of Microsoft