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To: phoenix who wrote (8434)	1/14/1998 2:00:00 PM
From: Randy Ellingson	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 11057

Roger- IMHO, it's because reliability does not depend on whose hard drive you buy, at least as long as you're buying a major brand name. I admit I don't have the reliability numbers, but I believe there is not a significant advantage to going with any one of Quantum, WDC, Fujitsu, Maxtor. (I could be wrong, and would be very interested in seeing any published data people might have). Today I am sending a defective WDC 2.5Gb drive back today (they replaced it with a 3.1). And I've sent one back before, a 1.6 Gb off a Micron P150 system. The bottom line is the quality drives don't fail often, and the major PC box makers use quality drives. (Painfully) long WDC, Randy

To: phoenix who wrote (8434)	1/14/1998 6:10:00 PM
From: Thomas Haegin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 11057

Well, normally people always have to go through one complete crash before they decide to install a backup device or at least take a look what HDD they had. Luckily for me, I had my Tchernobyl disaster about 10 years ago already. Since then I make regular backups of all critical data. Has helped me quite a bit on many occasions already. In my mind, it's never a question whether the HDD will fail one day, but only when. My brother recently bought himself a new HDD from Fujitsu 3.3 Giga or so. Freshly out of the box, plugged into his PC, it failed after 10 days already!! Now he's got another Fujitsu, same model; he says it's working fine for 6 weeks now. I once had a Seagate 450 MB that always sounded awful right from the start. It broke quickly after 2 months or so. At least they exchanged it without a fuss. I'm still working with the replacement 450MB (the new PC should arrive next week). I'll tell you folks about my experience with the new WD 6.4 GB then. How old was your Maxtor before she broke now? What model/capacity? Thomas