[ale] difference among Seagate, WesternDigital & Maxtor ?

[Scott Castaline]

tejus at vijedi.net wrote:

>I've never had a hard-drive fail (knocks on wood) but for a desktop system, 
>I'd take seagate over everything else.  The reason? Noise. 
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>The seagate's are barely audible when idling and just a soft tapping when 
>active.  My maxtor's sound like a high-speed notebook fan while idling and 
>like somebody using one of those old IBM "clicky" keyboards when it's 
>actually doing work. 
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>The few WD drives I have are in noisy and/or out of the way places, so I 
>don't know how they compare. 
>
>
>Tejus 
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>Courtney Thomas writes: 
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>>I need a new IDE drive and apparently Seagate, Western Digital and 
>>Maxtor have it to themselves, though I'm receptive if others are more 
>>for less. 
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>>Is there any significant difference among them that I should be aware 
>>of, or just get the biggest I can find for the least cost ? 
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>>Appreciatively, 
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>>Courtney
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I tend to stay away from Maxtor eversince they had bought out
Miniscribe. Their lowend stuff is really Miniscribe while the highend
stuff is Maxtor (SCSI UW320 etc). Having worked for Seatrash, excuse me,
Seagate may years ago at the start of the offshore manufacturing crase (
we called it the Singapore Sling ), at one of their repair depot centers
in Delray Beach, Fl. I had seen supposed new drives made in Singapore
that did not have disks in them, some were missing heads, some the bands
for the head to stepper motor connection, and some were just shells with
no guts. This was also at the time of the Seagate aquisition of Imprimus
a division CDC who made HDs for mainframes and up. Imprimus was pretty
much left alone and their drives became the highend lines for Seagate.
So to make a long story short or a short story long, I tend to stick
with WD and Quantum, although they have been gobbled up by Maxtor,
so.....................

Scott Castaline