Martin Bock a écrit :
On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 10:13:42PM +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote:I am using IBM Travelstar without any Problems for many years (I have 7 Laptops with IBM Disks from 3,2 -60 GBytes).What about the noise of your 60GB drive? Is the spin noise particularly high pitched or are the head movements rather loud? Somebody off-list told me that about older (~10GB) IBM disks and therefore recommended Samsung drives.
Oops. I didn't check that this list's reply-to header does point to the original poster only. I'll repost, for the record.
If this is no longer true I guess I will stick with IBM due to good reliability I experienced with their drives.
I had really bad experience with the Deskstar (3"5) (aka. Deathstar), with a failure rate of 20-30% after two-three years... I have a bunch (dozen) of these I ripped off servers because they were beginning to fail one after the other. So I do not trust IBM/Hitachi anymore, and thus won't buy any drive from them in the next few years. I hope I'm wrong.
-- NH