🚀 go-pugleaf

In article: <471941918wnr@naismith.demon.co.uk>  John Naismith <John@naismith.demon.co.uk> writes:
> In article: <aZv+kAAxVVYxEwPe@mwb.u-net.com>  Marcus Bainbridge 
> <marcus@mwb.u-net.com> writes:
> 
> <snip>
> 
> > IBM's aren't bad, but not many places sell them.  Avoid Fujitsu and
>                                                           ^^^^^^^
> Why Marcus? I've had (not personally you understand) 5 drives from Fujitsu 
> >540MB running happily for 2-3 years - no problem. They run nice and cool - not 
> the fastest in the world but pretty nippy in terms of access time. I have a five 
> year warranty on the one I use at home & that one has *no* significant air flow 
> aroud it yet is barely warm to the touch. No problems.
> 
> Do you know something I don't ?
I suspect, that he may, but that it may also be batch related. I had six Fujitsu's, in
a set of three machines, installed @1990, within two years, all six had failed, and
two further replacements as well. I then replaced them with Seagates, which are
all still running. However, I have had cause to use some Fujitsu's since, and (so far),
they have been reliable. At the time, the Fujitsu drives, impressed, by their quiteness,
and the general quality of their construction. I suspect, that there were some flakey
batches of drives, similar problems were seen with the early Seagate IDE drives,
and the early Barracudas. I have had good experiences with some models of
Quantum drives, but lots of problems from Conner. IBM's have been good.

Best Wishes

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