[lug] Hard Drive Manufacturer Suggestion

[Chris Brotherton]

On Fri, Dec 03, 2004 at 08:59:42AM -0700, dan radom wrote:
> * Chris Brotherton (chris at protonlab.net) wrote:
> > I used to be a big fan of Western Digital, but lately I have had problems with
> > them.  My current drive just died after 5 months.
> > 
> > I was curious what manufacturers you guys liked.
> > 
> 
> Over the years I've seen about the same failure rate among all the
> lower end IDE drives.  Shop for the warranty is my suggestion.

Seagate recently increased their warranty to 5 years, but I don't really have
any experience with them.  Has anyone gone through the seagate warranty claim
process?

Chris.