[mythtv-users] OT: 3 week old HDD "Clicking" ??

John Drescher drescherjm at gmail.com
Tue May 5 02:50:03 UTC 2009


On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 10:47 PM, John Drescher <drescherjm at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 10:41 PM, David Brodbeck <gull at gull.us> wrote:
>> I wonder if maybe we're barking up the wrong tree by trying to avoid
>> specific manufacturers.  It seems to me that the problem is more that every
>> manufacturer cranks out batches of good drives and batches of duds.  Seagate
>> is the most recent one to have a batch of duds, so they're the one
>> everyone's avoiding right now; but at one point it was IBM, before that it
>> was Maxtor, and before *that* it was Quantum.
>>
>
> I have had bad batches from WD twice. IBM once, Seagate twice. Maxtor
> twice. Also Connor, fujitsu.
>

I forgot Qunatum. Those 8.4GB bigfoots were absolute crap.

John


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