[Spridgets] OT - External hard drives

[David Lieb]

> Which brand is better - WD or Seagate?

Both are pretty good. I have used hundreds of each of them. I tend to prefer 
WD for desktops and the high-end ST drives for servers. I feel that Seagate 
puts more into their high-end drives, but WD does a better bread-and-butter 
drive. In the early days of IDE, there were ST drives that could not 
establish a master/slave relationship with another identical drive... but I 
was able to make them work as a slave to a WD.

As I said in my earlier post, every hard drive has moving parts and amounts 
to a timebomb waiting for the moment at which it can do you the most damage 
by crashing. The volume of WD drives out there is truly staggering. Yes, 
they will eventually fail, but I have had few failures of WD drives that 
were not due.
David Lieb