Re: what spec. should i consider when buying UDMA/66 HD?

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From: Noodle
Date: Thu, 09 Dec 1999 00:00

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Well, its from my personally experience.  How many WD drives you ever
used?
I bought about 12 to 15 in a few years and over half of them got bad
sectors within
a year.  So do you think I will buy any WD drive again with such bad
experience?

Vortec wrote:

> >Don't get Western Digital one...lousy drive ^_^'
>
> How's that?  And please don't list "They have too many recalls"
> because that's plain BS.  In fact, Western Digital is the only hard
> drive manufacturer to actually initiate a recall when something is bad
> and also PUBLICALLY announce it.
>
> Rarely do you see the other manufacturers initiating a recall when
> they know certain drives have big problems, and not once in the past
> few hard drive generations have I seen any other manufacturer besides
> Western Digital go out and publically make it known that there is a
> problem.  This proves that Western Digital actually rules in
> supporting you...

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From: Noodle <noodle@nissin.com>
Subject: Re: what spec. should i consider when buying UDMA/66 HD?
Date: 1999/12/09
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