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ian@huth · 19-05-2005, 13:35

Having sold many thousands of drives over the years we found IBM drives to be the most reliable, Seagate coming out bottom of the list. There were odd batches of IBM drives that were dodgy but these were few and far apart. Same probably for drives from all manufacturers with batch faults possibly being caused by poor handling in transit. Still have a few odd IBM drives that date back as far as 1993 (oldest is a 528Mb drive) that are still going strong, some of which were run 24/7 for several years.

19-05-2005, 13:35	#18
ian@huth Inactive Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Huthwaite, Nottinghamshire Services: VM 10Mb, TU, 1xSky HD, 2xSky+ (HD,all packs, sports & movies) 2xDVD PVR's, Freesat Freeview & other Posts: 4,536	Re: Warning: Hitachi Hard Drives!!! Having sold many thousands of drives over the years we found IBM drives to be the most reliable, Seagate coming out bottom of the list. There were odd batches of IBM drives that were dodgy but these were few and far apart. Same probably for drives from all manufacturers with batch faults possibly being caused by poor handling in transit. Still have a few odd IBM drives that date back as far as 1993 (oldest is a 528Mb drive) that are still going strong, some of which were run 24/7 for several years.