What vendors/brands have you had good/bad luck with? My history is mostly WD and they have been a champ. Maxtors seem to run a bit loud in my experience. Brian Densmore wrote: > The only time I have ever lost a HD was when it was DOA or I bought it > used. My original 20 MB MFM drive still functions (or would if I were to > dust it off and plug it in). And it is 20 years old. Of course IDE is > better, and SCSI is just real high performance. For mission critical I'd > still recommend SCSI ... > iff you've got the bucks. I see no problem in using IDE for a RAID > configuration. Of course, when it comes to HDs I spend the money and get > the best quality drive I can afford. So my recommendation is don't buy > the cheapest of the product line, but head more toward the upper end. > > Brian > > > >>-----Original Message----- >>From: Matt Luettgen [mailto:matt@tccassociates.net] >>Sent: Monday, January 20, 2003 12:21 AM >>To: kclug@kclug.org >>Subject: Re: Hard drives, quality (IDE vs SCSI call for True Stories) >> >> >>My room-mate has a 60Gb Maxtor drive die...less than 2 years old >> >>On Sun, 19 Jan 2003 23:47:26 -0600 >>zscoundrel wrote: >> >>