[PLUG] 2.5-inch drive (for laptop) recommendations?

Elliott Mitchell ehem at m5p.com
Tue Aug 23 23:14:29 UTC 2005


>From: Kurt Sussman <plug at merlot.com>
> AthlonRob (athlonrob at axpr.net) typed this ...
> > Kurt Sussman wrote:
> > > Sorry, I got the Hitachi. I was going to get the Seagate, but I wanted
> > 
> > I own a Deathstar - I won't buy another IBM/Hitachi.  That's just me,
> > though.
> 
> The Google guys (who lose 50-70 servers per DAY, mostly to hard drive
> failures) say that there is no drive manufacturer that is significantly
> better than another (from the big names: IBM, Maxtor, Seagate, WD).
> They've got the data to make such statements authoritatively, for 3.5"
> IDE drives.

Where did you find this information? Valuable statistical information
indeed.

> But notebook drives are something else entirely, I think.

Likely.


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