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Any suggestions? There's maxtor, lacie, wdc, seagate, hitachi, etc.
I've heard bad things about the Seagate 300gb.
I need a recommendation. It is to be used as a backup drive, connected via
USB.
Tks.
-Pete

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Pete@nospam.com wrote:
> Any suggestions? There's maxtor, lacie, wdc, seagate, hitachi, etc.
> I've heard bad things about the Seagate 300gb.
> I need a recommendation. It is to be used as a backup drive,
> connected via USB.
> Tks.
> -Pete
All drives are about the same. Seagate still has a 5 year warranty.

Kalok is the only brand to stay away from. (Easy to do. They made bad drives
and went belly up at the time that 10Mb was big.)

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"Mike Painter" <mddotpainter@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
news:6xgAe.92$Rv7.18@newssvr21.news.prodigy.com...
> Pete@nospam.com wrote:
>> Any suggestions? There's maxtor, lacie, wdc, seagate, hitachi, etc.
>> I've heard bad things about the Seagate 300gb.
>> I need a recommendation. It is to be used as a backup drive,
>> connected via USB.
>> Tks.
>> -Pete
> All drives are about the same. Seagate still has a 5 year warranty.
>
> Kalok is the only brand to stay away from. (Easy to do. They made bad
> drives and went belly up at the time that 10Mb was big.)
>.
I bought a Seagate 300gb yesterday at CompUsa and took it back today. When
backing up, the log contained several pages or read write errors. It was
ridiculous.
Now I'm in the market again.
-Pete

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"" wrote:
> Any suggestions? There's maxtor, lacie, wdc, seagate, hitachi,
> etc.
> I've heard bad things about the Seagate 300gb.
> I need a recommendation. It is to be used as a backup drive,
> connected via
> USB.
> Tks.
> -Pete

befor your go and buy one, you should find out if you have USB2 or
not, if you dont know then you should find the manual for your
motherborad.

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<Pete@nospam.com> wrote in message
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> Any suggestions? There's maxtor, lacie, wdc, seagate, hitachi, etc.
> I've heard bad things about the Seagate 300gb.
> I need a recommendation. It is to be used as a backup drive, connected via
> USB.
> Tks.
> -Pete
>
>

Buy an empty USB hard drive case, and then buy the hard drive of your
choice. It may end up costing you a few buck more at the outset, but you
know you can change the drive, swap out different drives, get a bigger drive
later. Overall, you get more use out of it.

Some of those USB external drives aren't meant to be opened, and if you do,
you void the warranty. Or they're built only to fit specific drives -- you
may not have noticed it, but the placement of the IDE cable and power
connector are not identical on all drives. You won't have that problem if
you get one of the empty ones.

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> "" wrote:
> > Any suggestions? There's maxtor, lacie, wdc, seagate, hitachi,
> > etc.
> > I've heard bad things about the Seagate 300gb.
> > I need a recommendation. It is to be used as a backup drive,
> > connected via
> > USB.
> > Tks.
> > -Pete
>
> befor your go and buy one, you should find out if you have USB2 or
> not, if you dont know then you should find the manual for your
> motherborad.
>
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Yes, of course I know its USB 2.

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On Sun, 10 Jul 2005 21:36:02 GMT, "Mike Painter"
>Pete@nospam.com wrote:

>> Any suggestions? There's maxtor, lacie, wdc, seagate, hitachi, etc.
>> I've heard bad things about the Seagate 300gb.
>> I need a recommendation. It is to be used as a backup drive,
>> connected via USB.

>All drives are about the same. Seagate still has a 5 year warranty.

>Kalok is the only brand to stay away from. (Easy to do. They made bad drives
>and went belly up at the time that 10Mb was big.)

MiniScribe, who created the world's most expensive artificial barrier
reef when they dumped tons of defective (platter harmonic resonance,
hence "butterfly" test) drives that they claimed to have "sold"?

JTS? Jeez, JTS were way worse than the Kaylok 40M drives, and they
died around the 2G era.

HD market is conservative, and rightly so, it seems; hardly anyone who
hasn't been making HDs for at least 5 years get much market share at
all. Samsung may or may not be the exception, and I wouldn't use them
anyway... right now i'm using Seagate.

I'm more worried about your HD housing and handling than HD brand or
model. The external life is tough, and seems prone to early death.

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cquirke (MVP Windows shell/user) wrote:
> On Sun, 10 Jul 2005 21:36:02 GMT, "Mike Painter"
>
>>Pete@nospam.com wrote:
>
>
>>>Any suggestions? There's maxtor, lacie, wdc, seagate, hitachi, etc.
>>>I've heard bad things about the Seagate 300gb.
>>>I need a recommendation. It is to be used as a backup drive,
>>>connected via USB.
>
>
>>All drives are about the same. Seagate still has a 5 year warranty.
>
>
>>Kalok is the only brand to stay away from. (Easy to do. They made bad drives
>>and went belly up at the time that 10Mb was big.)
>
>
> MiniScribe, who created the world's most expensive artificial barrier
> reef when they dumped tons of defective (platter harmonic resonance,
> hence "butterfly" test) drives that they claimed to have "sold"?
>
> JTS? Jeez, JTS were way worse than the Kaylok 40M drives, and they
> died around the 2G era.
>
> HD market is conservative, and rightly so, it seems; hardly anyone who
> hasn't been making HDs for at least 5 years get much market share at
> all. Samsung may or may not be the exception, and I wouldn't use them
> anyway... right now i'm using Seagate.
>

Samsung has been making hard drives since at least 1997, I have a 2 GB
drive of theirs in my office.

> I'm more worried about your HD housing and handling than HD brand or
> model. The external life is tough, and seems prone to early death.
>
>
>
>
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>
> The most accurate diagnostic instrument
> in medicine is the Retrospectoscope
>
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On Tue, 12 Jul 2005 06:30:16 GMT, "Michael W. Ryder"

>Samsung has been making hard drives since at least 1997, I have a 2 GB
>drive of theirs in my office.

Thanks, I was wondering about that... and it makes my point, in a way;
we (or should I say, "I", and say "can I get a witness?" ) still think
of them as newcomers to the scene <g>

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On Sun, 10 Jul 2005 20:27:08 GMT, <Pete@nospam.com> wrote:

>Any suggestions? There's maxtor, lacie, wdc, seagate, hitachi, etc.
>I've heard bad things about the Seagate 300gb.
>I need a recommendation. It is to be used as a backup drive, connected via
>USB.
>Tks.
>-Pete
>
StorTecc PM-350U2-ECS V4 Silver Smart Backup USB 2.0 Dual Fan Aluminum
External Enclosure for 3.5 Inch HDD, w/ Tri-Color LED - RETAIL
<http://dealsonic.com/stpmsismbaus.html>
plus an IDE drive such as
Western Digital Internal Hard Drive (WD3000JBRTL)
<http://www.circuitcity.com/ssm/Western-Digital-Internal-Hard-Drive-WD3000JBRTL-/sem/rpsm/oid/117696/rpem/ccd/productDetail.do>

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