OT: Is any hard disk brand better/worse than the others?

[Howard Gibson]

On Mon, 1 Dec 2008 12:38:47 -0500
lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org (Lennart Sorensen) wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 11:16:46AM -0500, James Knott wrote:
> > Curious.  I've been running Maxtor for years with no problems.
> 
> Maxtor DiamondPlus8 40GB drives.  They will fail.  All of them, and all
> catastrophicly.
> 
> So that's a few years ago, but still. :)

   I have a Maxtor D740X-6L running on my continuously-on computer since March_2002. No problems so far.   

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