risc said:
The last time you checked what? Seagate, Western Digital, Maxtor, Hitachi they all make great drives.
Yep, last time I checked. I checked here and on other boards. A large number of people recommended that I avoid Maxtor, and since Lacie used Maxtor HDDs in their cases at the time, I avoided them as well. Yes, Western Digital and Seagate Barracudas had a great rep at the time, and still do, but remember that things change quickly.
You may of had problems with a brand in the past but millions of other users haven't had issues with them at all.
I haven't had problems with any brand, so it's not based on a bias of any sort.
And so what if millions of other users haven't had issues with Maxtors or Lacies. I'm glad that your Lacie HD worked out well for you and so manyother people, but what you said is rather meaningless. Lots of people have had issues as well. Same goes with any brand. They've also had successes. This guy is asking for recommendations, and despite the fact that the HDD world and reputations change rather quickly in 1 or 2 years, I'm just telling him what I found out a year ago.
And if you want to know, the only time a harddrive has ever crapped out on me was a Seagate, and I ended up buying a Seagate Barracuda internal HD and an external HDD enclosure with Firewire (it uses the Oxford chipset, of course). I was also told that internal HDs were better than the ones used in external drives, but I forget the reasoning for this. Whatever. The combination was much cheaper (getting an internal HD and an external enclosure always is) and was either the same or better than Lacie's offerings at the time.
