[Thinkpad] Hitachi drive difference?

[Bruce Markowitz]

I agree with that, although I do like the Toshibas. Have a WD 120 in an
enclosure, seems fast and quiet.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Canyonlands Computer Raypair" <canyonlands at gmail.com>
To: "Paul Khoury" <khourypa at gmail.com>
Cc: "ThinkPad Mailing List" <thinkpad at stderr.org>
Sent: Friday, April 06, 2007 7:35 PM
Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] Hitachi drive difference?


> We put one or the other in all our laptop repairs... We have had three
> Seagates come back out of 50.  Seagate sent us replacments within days.
No
> Scorpio failures yet, but we use a lot more Seagates due to the longer
> warranty.
>
> God Help us if we are ever forced to go back to Hitachi deathstars.
>
> RayBay
>
>
>
> On 4/6/07, Paul Khoury <khourypa at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On 4/6/07, Canyonlands Computer Raypair <canyonlands at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > We agree. Having used 70+ 7k100 Hitachi's without a problem...
> > >
> > > However, we do now prefer the WD Scorpio's and the Seagate Momentus
for
> > > their longer lives.
> > >
> > How long do the Seagate Momentus drives last?  Or rather, has anyone
> > here had a failure?  I have one in my T42p, and use a WD Scorpio in my
> > external WD Passport.  Both are 160GB drives, and very quick.
> >
> > I've tried to stay away from the Travelstars only because they seem to
> > like to get louder after a few months to a year, even on the FDB
> > models.  Also, what's the scoop on Fujitsu and Toshiba drives?  It
> > seems that the notebook hard drive industry has become more
> > competitive again, as WD and Seagate were never big players in this
> > niche.
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