[lug] Hard Drive Manufacturer Suggestion

[Michael Belanger]

As to warranty issues, Hitachi seemed to offer no drop ship option and 
required strict packing instructions -- failure to follow resulted in a 
termination of the warranty... But once you go through those hoops, I 
did get the replacement drive relatively quickly.

As a related sidenote, NEVER just opt for a 1 year warranty on a laptop. 
  The freakin drive failed 5 days out of warranty (of which I foolishly 
accepted the default 1 year).  S-O-L.  Also, even though you can get the 
same drives with warrantys greater than one year (by default), IBM chose 
to have the 1 year warranty cover ALL components.  Argh.. Thanks for 
letting me vent.  Buyer beware.



Michael Belanger wrote:
> I highly recommend IBM harddrives.. I have been using them for years 
> without any problems -- and great performance.
> 
> I have also had good luck with Maxtor HDD's.
> 
> I have had TERRIBLE luck with Hitachi (specifically, their thinkpad 
> HDD's), and with Seagate SCSI HDD's.  Not sure how Seagate's IDE/SATA 
> drives are.

-- 
Michael Belanger
CICLOPS, Space Science Institute