What is the best HDD in terms of Reliability/cost?

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What is the best HDD in terms of Reliability/cost?

"kopn" wrote in message
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Hello
What is the best HDD in terms of Reliability/cost?

For [S]ATA WDC, Seagate, Hitachi & Maxtor are all good.

For SCSI Seagate, Hitachi, Fujitsu & Maxtor.

kopn wrote:

Hello
What is the best HDD in terms of Reliability/cost?

Seagate. Seagate. Seagate.

Most definitely avoid Maxtor and Hitachi - although I don't have much
experience of Maxtor's enterprise drives, so I can't comment.

Nearly all my data recovery work comes in the form of Maxtor, Hitachi,
Western Digital, the old Quantum drives, and a mixture of others -
pretty much in that order.

Six months ago, the positions of the first two in the list were
reversed.


Odie
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Retrodata
www.retrodata.co.uk
Globally Local Data Recovery Experts

kopn wrote:

Hello
What is the best HDD in terms of Reliability/cost?

Nobody. ASSUME that your drive is going to fail tomorrow and behave
accordingly.

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--John
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(was jclarke at eye bee em dot net)

"kopn" wrote in message
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What is the best HDD in terms of Reliability/cost?

In terms of reliability - it's the one you purchased 10 years ago that's
still running.

In terms of cost - it's the one you buy next year.

"Odie Ferrous" wrote in message
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Six months ago, the positions of the first two in the list were
reversed.

Perhaps in six months time they will be different again :-)

"Odie Ferrous" wrote in message
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kopn wrote:

Hello
What is the best HDD in terms of Reliability/cost?

Seagate. Seagate. Seagate.

Most definitely avoid Maxtor and Hitachi - although I don't have much
experience of Maxtor's enterprise drives, so I can't comment.


What's clear is that you have little experience of relevance regarding HDs.
Ignore this Seagate shill.

kopn wrote in message
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What is the best HDD in terms of Reliability/cost?

There is no such animal.

The cost can vary a lot with rebates etc, and its impossible to
get a real handle on reliability. No one except the manufacturer
sees enough drives to be able to say much about reliability.

This is the clown that is so stupid it never even noticed
the problem with the IBM 75GXP, even when it was
so unreliable it produced a full class action suit.

He clearly wouldnt have a clue about hard drive reliability.


Ron Reaugh wrote in message
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kopn wrote

What is the best HDD in terms of Reliability/cost?

For [S]ATA WDC, Seagate, Hitachi & Maxtor are all good.

For SCSI Seagate, Hitachi, Fujitsu & Maxtor.

Odie Ferrous wrote in
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kopn wrote

What is the best HDD in terms of Reliability/cost?

Seagate. Seagate. Seagate.

Most definitely avoid Maxtor and Hitachi - although I don't have
much experience of Maxtor's enterprise drives, so I can't comment.

Nearly all my data recovery work comes in the form of
Maxtor, Hitachi, Western Digital, the old Quantum drives,
and a mixture of others - pretty much in that order.

Doesnt prove much if those that buy particular brands do full
backup more often and so never need to use you when the drive dies.

Its likely that those buying the cheapest drives do the least backup.

Six months ago, the positions of the first two in the list were reversed.

The technical term for that is 'pathetically inadequate sample'