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from john2 contains these words:

Never had that trouble with my Samsung drive.

It applies to the 160 GB one that Aldi were flogging off cheapish last
year, maybe not other Samsungs. Perhaps that's why it was cheap.

I had one of the Aldi WD 250GB drives. Marked on the box as "Internal
Hard Disc Drive" on all faces except one - where it's maked
"Infernal...."

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