[Thinkpad] Hitachi drive difference?

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In <9fcb152c0704061744mc5c0214m2e4d35323306a764 at mail.gmail.com>, on
04/06/2007 
   at 05:44 PM, "Paul Khoury" <khourypa at gmail.com> said:



>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?

I have three that have out-lived that point.   Perhaps its the machine
handeling that is at the core of yoru experience.  




>>
>> 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
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