Hard drives, quality (IDE vs SCSI call for True Stories)

[Hanasaki JiJi]

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 at tccassociates.net]
>>Sent: Monday, January 20, 2003 12:21 AM
>>To: kclug at kclug.org
>>Subject: Re: Hard drives, quality (IDE vs SCSI call for True Stories)
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>>My room-mate has a 60Gb Maxtor drive die...less than 2 years old
>>
>>On Sun, 19 Jan 2003 23:47:26 -0600
>>zscoundrel <zscoundrel at kc.rr.com> wrote:
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