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Thursday, February 09, 2006
Memory Rich
Since my current hard drive was starting to have some problems, I decided to buy a new one. I upgraded to a generous 300GB drive because it was a good value (~$0.33 per GB) and I figured that it doesn't hurt to have more space (I was actually starting to run out of space on my old 120GB drive).
Out of all the major hard drive manufacturers I know of (Western Digital, Seagate, IBM, Hitachi, Fujitsu, and Maxtor.. sorted roughly in the order of quality/reliability in my opinion), the one I've had the worst experience with and consequently trust the least is Maxtor. Ironically, if you take a peek inside the case of my computer, there are THREE Maxtor brand hard drives sitting in there (only one was connected, but that's the one that is having problem). Every Maxtor drive I've owned (a total of 4) has eventually succumbed to problems resulting in data loss. Why do I have Maxtor drives? The bottom line is that are cheaper than the rest (and one of them, I even got for free because my parents won it at raffle at a company party), and to be fair, they did last a decent amount of time before breaking down.
That said, I decided to take a different route and went with buying a Seagate this time. So far, everything's been working fine. I installed it and got it set-up as my primary slave drive (formatting it took forever), and am now in the slow process of moving all of my files over from the old drive. This large amount of time spent doing "computer stuff" really reminds me of when I used to similar things in middle school. How times have changed..
10:57 PM Albert
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