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krohnjw · April 20th, 2002, 01:10 PM

I would say no.
All drives now are pretty standardly priced. There are only 4 Drive manufacturers really, WD, maxtor, Seagate, and IBM. Now, looking past IBM's Deathstar failings, all make excellent drives for the money. All of the prices are around the same range and I really cannot knock any of them. I have a WD and a Quantum drive and have had zero troubles with any of them. I have installed a few maxtor drives also and have had zero troubles with those also. All have had long life spans, still running, and have been reliable drives. The anamoly here is the Deskstar by IBM. IBM has a history for making great drives, but they muffed up on the deskstar, chock that up to poor engineering or whatever you might, I still feel that it is an anomaly and not the new norm. I personally haven't seen any "no name" drives, as HD are a bit more to manufacture than , say CDR's. So looking at the 4 real drive manfacturers I would say no.

April 20th, 2002, 01:10 PM	#2 (permalink)
krohnjw dword to your moms Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: ~/ Posts: 3,195	I would say no. All drives now are pretty standardly priced. There are only 4 Drive manufacturers really, WD, maxtor, Seagate, and IBM. Now, looking past IBM's Deathstar failings, all make excellent drives for the money. All of the prices are around the same range and I really cannot knock any of them. I have a WD and a Quantum drive and have had zero troubles with any of them. I have installed a few maxtor drives also and have had zero troubles with those also. All have had long life spans, still running, and have been reliable drives. The anamoly here is the Deskstar by IBM. IBM has a history for making great drives, but they muffed up on the deskstar, chock that up to poor engineering or whatever you might, I still feel that it is an anomaly and not the new norm. I personally haven't seen any "no name" drives, as HD are a bit more to manufacture than , say CDR's. So looking at the 4 real drive manfacturers I would say no.