[Thinkpad] Hitachi drive difference?

[Bruce Markowitz]

I have had a very low failure rate with the 40 gig 5400 RPM 16MB GAX models,
in fact only one that I can think of (and that was the 60 gig model).
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Keith Schawel" <thinkpad at li.ath.cx>
To: <thinkpad at stderr.org>
Sent: Friday, April 06, 2007 10:31 PM
Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] Hitachi drive difference?


> 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:
> >
> >
> >   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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