In my experiece Western Digital drives hold out very well. Maxtor drives are less expensive but I've seen them fail often. More modern drives with fluid ball bearing moters are generally more reliable and much quieter.
On another note, stay away from IBM brand hard drives for the time being. Long story short one of their more popular models sucks and they tried to cover it up. More on this can be found
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Originally posted by Elspode
On a related note, does anyone else find that floppies are about unusable these days, even right out of the box? I throw away about 1/3 to 1/2 of floppies I try to use anymore because they are flat nonfunctional.
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Thats an interesting problem. Where I work we send and recieve tons of data in floppy disk format (many computers don't have CD-R drives). We generally only throw out one or two in a box of fifty.
02-01-2004, 11:31 PM
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