On Sat, 7 Apr 2007 08:13:21 -0500, "Anthony Fremont"
Gave us:

As for bad drives, I see them all the time. I just replaced one in a $3000
laptop that was well under a year old. Guess what, it was a deskstar.
And another thing, S.M.A.R.T is worthless at predicting drive failure.


Jeez, 2.5" laptop drives are even harder to kill! What the **** are
your friends doing over there, ****ing on everything?

Maybe the drive makers sell you guys the **** end of the test lots!

Or maybe that guy's Porn is making the drive laugh at him.

You are jinxed, because I have NEVER seen so many dead drives as you
seem to claim are in abundance in your little circle.

And oh... we DO use them... we thrash the hell out of them.

Maybe you are in the airstream of a very salty body of water...
Could be any number of things.

Anyway, WD, Fuj, Maxturd... I never buy. Seagate has much higher
MTBF numbers, are quieter, and are used in military circles, which is
really what says the most about them.
I would also buy IBM (now Hitachi) or Hitachi drives.

IBM was the leader in MR recording technology, and WD and the other
use IBM's technology in their drives. They still have the record for
areal density on horizontal recording tech, and now also have it on
the perpendicular stuff.