On Jul 15, 8:28*pm, wrote:
On Sun, 15 Jul 2012 19:48:55 -0400, Duesenberg wrote:
On 7/14/2012 7:15 PM, Percival P. Cassidy wrote:
On 07/14/12 05:53 pm, Oren wrote:
Seeking opinions of current parts.

My work for him is free -- start to finish.

For years I've bought nothing but Asus motherboards, AMD CPUs and
Seagate hard drives (except that I bought Hitachi drives for notebooks)
-- almost all my dead drives are Western Digital. Most recently I've
been buying G.Skill RAM but previously bought mostly Kingston. The DVD
drives I've bought recently have been whatever was on sale at the time..

My most recent purchases have been from NewEgg.com, but TigerDirect.com
has occasionally had better prices.

Perce

Western Digital has a perceived lower failure rate than Seagate the last
few years from the websites I buy from.

I have magnets from a couple dozen bad hard drives from various
sources, usually "dead" machines I was given.. several were drives I
bought. Most were from W/D Caviars. Certainly more than every other
brand combined. I won't ever buy one again.
Unfortunately there are only a couple companies making all the brands
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I'm not sure that proves much about W/D. Isn't it
just possible they were the supplier for the systems
you bought. Meaning if they had used brand Y,
you would have gotten a lot of dead machines with
brand Y drives instead.