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David Autumns
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I have 2 Seagate Hard Drives to install so i guess its good news for me  |
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David Autumns
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Hi marysduby
----------------------------------------I've never used any other type and I have stuck with them because they have never let me down. I think I bought my first one when they were a massive 2Gb. I now have 2 * 250Gb Drives in a striped raid array on this machine I once watched Jonathon Wright, of almost 1/2 Million points fame on MOT, install a Seagate AS Hardrive in a PC and it burst into flames! Since that time we've always said that the AS after the Seagate bit stood for "Added Smoke"  Best of luck  Dave |
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My experience tells me that the old Seagate drives are very reliable. I'm still using a Barracuda 30G in one of my PC for crunching 24/7 with no problem at all. This is not so good for my 80-120G seagate drives (but no AS
) . I then switch to using Maxtor for 80 to 300G drive types and it's very reliable. Western Digital is also very good and reliable. It's a bad news for losing Maxtor as one of the manufacturers.  |
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