[Thinkpad] Hitachi drive difference?

[Canyonlands Computer Raypair]

I agree that Toshiba laptop drives have consistently been among the best for
many years... Too much of the rest of the Toshiba stuff, though, is sub par
nowadays.  It is only recently that Western Digital and Seagate have been
good, whereas Toshiba has lead the pack for nine years or more.




On 4/6/07, Bruce Markowitz <scosgt at worldnet.att.net> wrote:
>
> 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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