[Thinkpad] Hitachi drive difference?

[Paul Khoury]

On 4/6/07, Canyonlands Computer Raypair <canyonlands at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

5 years is pretty nice.  Hitachi is what, 3 years?  And guaranteed to
fail in 37 months?
>
> God Help us if we are ever forced to go back to Hitachi deathstars.
>
I hear you on this one.  Words I cannot use on this list would be most
appropriate for the experiences I've had with Hitachi drives.  Even
when IBM made Deathstars, they were still incredibly bad.  I used to
really like Maxtor because they would do cross shipments, but I don't
think Seagate does that.  Are the Toshibas or Fujitsu's any good?
I've seen a few of these in ThinkPads, but very seldom.

Paul