heh man I'd like to see a flaming hard drive ( not my own of course ).. I caught something about seagate being behind WD and Maxtor for HDD recording because of a smaller writeback buffer than their competitors..

PS I heard that.. dont pinch my nads.
PPS dont comment on my ps. thankyou.

[This message has been edited by Jiddu (edited 10-17-2002).]

Yes, Seagate drives are slower than equivalent Maxtor and WD drives, that is to say if Maxtor's and WD's 7200RPM drives have an 8.4ms read/write time, Seagate's 7200RPM drives have an 8.9ms read/write time. However, they have a reputation for being quieter and more reliable.

At the time I bought my hard drives, first an IBM 60GXP (came out after the 75GXP, a bit more reliable, but still known to crash and burn *not literally burn*) then my Seagate Barracuda IV, they were both considered "the best" by techies at the time. Within 2 months of buying the IBM drives, all the nerds were complaining about how unreliable they were, though statistically they weren't as bad as the 75GXP series. Within 2 months of buying the Barracuda IV, WD's Special Edition series came out and those seem to be the cat's jammies lately.

So in other words, **** it. Let the tech nerds argue over which computer peripherals are best. I spent a few months following "the buzz" and all it got me was a sub-par mobo and an IBM drive that may crash on me one day. *knocks on wood*

But the reason I posted was to say avoid IBM hard drives. They once were the best, but lately (past two years) things have gotten sketchy.

I have a 60GXP. How do you back up 14GB of movies in a convenient way? I've had the drive for a year in november, I quess it's all downhill from now on..

-tek

edit: no typo here, YUO LIAIR!!S



[This message has been edited by tekminus (edited 10-18-2002).]

Tek,

if your 60GXP drive starts making a scraping sound, get a new one, otherwise I wouldn't worry about it.

If it does die on you, take it out and put it in a freezer. This is a trick I picked up by reading around. Once you get a new drive, take it out of the freezer, pop it in and back up everything. It supposedly works only once.

I've had mine for over a year now and it seems fine, but sometimes odd things do happen with it.

i have an IBM deskstar 60gxp and its failed twice. luckily its my OS drive and not the audio/midi file drive. also lucky for me i have a backup of the drive on CD after everything was installed.

eeeek all my HD's are seagate 7200 rpm barracudas (ata100 IDE) 2x20s and a 40 (Gb) one of the 20s just came up with bad sectors during a routine defrag it was only 2 years old so I checked the serial on the website and they confirmed it was still under its 3yr international warranty (I bought it whilst on holiday in singapore)I sent it away and got a new one Loverly ! (and I managed to get all the data of too (except a 1 minute guitar track that I hated any way).My 2cents which is sooooo of topic now .