[Thinkpad] Hitachi drive difference?

[khourypa]

FWIW, I've also seen some older Travelstars last for over
10 years.  I think it also has to do a lot with the models.  I'm sure
most of us recall the drive models, like DBOA, DADA, DRCA, etc.  Some
worked better, but all had idiosyncracies individual to that series.


-----Original Message-----
From: thinkpad-bounces at stderr.org [mailto:thinkpad-bounces at stderr.org] 
>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.