I used to work at a small "mom and pop" computer store here in Ottawa. The general conscensus, echoed by our technician, was this:
Maxtor, Western Digital, Quantum (now part of Maxtor) and Seagate were generally good drives.
IBM, Fujitsu and Samsung were considered pretty crappy.
Personally, I've seen more Fujitsu failures than any other. I'd never buy one. Although, with ANY computer product, a "bad run" can happen anytime. A bad batch of power supplies from an otherwise good manufacturer, bad motherboards from top brands, bad batch of hard drives. These all happen now and then. And someone's gotta get bit;)
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I used to work at a small "mom and pop" computer store here in Ottawa. The general conscensus, echoed by our technician, was this:
;)
Maxtor, Western Digital, Quantum (now part of Maxtor) and Seagate were generally good drives.
IBM, Fujitsu and Samsung were considered pretty crappy.
Personally, I've seen more Fujitsu failures than any other. I'd never buy one. Although, with ANY computer product, a "bad run" can happen anytime. A bad batch of power supplies from an otherwise good manufacturer, bad motherboards from top brands, bad batch of hard drives. These all happen now and then. And someone's gotta get bit