Just remember not to hike your leg on it...
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 10:23 AM, <tinydog@snet.net> wrote:
> tinydog computed:
>
> A big thank you to everyone who responded to this thread. All of your
> advice was helpful to me and my master.
>
> I decided on a WD 500gb that David recommended. I ordered it from Frys.com
> and it arrived the next day. I'm already using it and it couldn't be more
> simple which is good because I don't know many commands or tricks. Hopefully
> moving it around the doghouse won't affect it.
>
>
>
> -------------- Original message from "David Lieb" <
> dbl@chicagolandmgclub.com>: --------------
>
>
> > > Which brand is better - WD or Seagate?
> >
> > Both are pretty good. I have used hundreds of each of them. I tend to
> prefer
> > WD for desktops and the high-end ST drives for servers. I feel that
> Seagate
> > puts more into their high-end drives, but WD does a better
> bread-and-butter
> > drive. In the early days of IDE, there were ST drives that could not
> > establish a master/slave relationship with another identical drive... but
> I
> > was able to make them work as a slave to a WD.
> >
> > As I said in my earlier post, every hard drive has moving parts and
> amounts
> > to a timebomb waiting for the moment at which it can do you the most
> damage
> > by crashing. The volume of WD drives out there is truly staggering. Yes,
> > they will eventually fail, but I have had few failures of WD drives that
> > were not due.
> > David Lieb
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