[Thinkpad] Hitachi drive difference?

[Keith Schawel]

Toshiba is the only drive brand that I would tell anyone to never get.
Their bearings fail way too often.  I have two that have failed on me and we
see an inordinate amount of them at work (I work for my university,
repairing student's computers).  When we see a Toshiba come in, I would say
it is about 75% of the time a failing hard drive (generally, Toshiba laptops
use Toshiba hard drives).  Granted, Toshibas aren't nearly as ubiquitous as
Dells, so there is a smaller sample size.  Even with the FDB, though,
Toshiba hard drives will start grinding...

I don't know what anyone else's experience is, but that's mine.

Keith

On 4/6/07, Paul Khoury <khourypa at gmail.com> wrote:
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>   Are the Toshibas or Fujitsu's any good?
> I've seen a few of these in ThinkPads, but very seldom.
>
> Paul
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