Crappy HDDs Killing Computers

[Andy Green]

Chong Yu Meng wrote:

> Samsung ???? Auuugh!! There are four drive manufacturers I try to stay
> away from: IBM/Hitachi, Maxtor, Fujitsu and Samsung. I guess that just

Sigh, Samsung HDD in this Samsung laptop to look forward to getting to 
know better then.  And FWIW the drive that fell over and made be buy the 
Samsung in a hurry was a Western Digital Raptor WD740 74GB 10KRPM job. 
But that lasted the best part of a year in the box.

> leaves Seagate and Western Digital. Incidentally, those are the 2 oldest
> drives that I still have that still work. A 80MB Western Digital
> (remember when 80MB was huge ?) and a 18GB Seagate SCSI in a external
> casing.

Heh seems not too long ago (20 years +) I remember buying a surplus 10MB 
HDD, huge, heavy beautifully engineered thing with an unfathomable 
proprietary interface, wonderful coloured twisted-pair ribbon cables. 
Errr.. must've dozed off there for a minute.

> Also, there are the hard disks that "fall off the back of the truck" --
> hijacked shipments that may or may not contain good drives. It's

No I doubt it fell off a truck, although in fact it is behaving rather 
like it did.  I got it in a hurry from a "PC World" store here in the 
UK.  Anyway I used to work out of a laptop for years and am remembering 
all the good points of that at the moment so I guess the desktop was a 
failed experiment.  I guess you must be right and I was in the wrong 
store at the wrong time buying the wrong product.

-Andy
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