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

[Jose]

Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 08:16:44PM -0500, jemcinto-cpI+UMyWUv+w5LPnMra/2Q at public.gmane.org wrote:
>>> Ehm, DOS style partition table has a limit of 2TB (2^32 sectors).
>> 2^32 sectors is NOT 2TB, it is 4GB.
> 
> 2^32 _bytes_ is 4GB.  Since sectors are 512bytes each, it is in fact
> 2TB.
> 
Personally, I have had problems with Maxtors, Seagates any model never 
unless the drive was older than 3 or 4 years ago in production mode 
24/7, IDE models. I had problems with the old 40GB scsi Seagate models, 
but I haven't got a problem with the newer ones.

I also prefer WD as well for home use.

Just my 2 cents

Jose

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