Hard Drive?

Hi,

I was having misc problems that I could not isolate to either memory or 
a hard drive. Finally just got a new system with all new hardware. The 
old system had the following hard drives:

Western Digital WD600-JB 60Gb mfg in 2003
IBM Deskstar 80 Gb Mfg in 2002

I have an external case with a USB interface that I can use for one of 
the above. Any suggestions as to which might be more reliable? I don't 
need the extra 20Gb space since I also have a Maxtor 300Gb external 
drive for backup purposes.

Thanks,

Paul Ratcliffe wrote:
> On Sat, 12 Jan 2008 03:49:36 -0800, William Usim <bill-u@comcast.net>
wrote:
> 
>> The old system had the following hard drives:
>>
>> Western Digital WD600-JB 60Gb mfg in 2003
>> IBM Deskstar 80 Gb Mfg in 2002
> 
> Ugh!
> 
>> I have an external case with a USB interface that I can use for one of

>> the above. Any suggestions as to which might be more reliable?
> 
> Neither. Junk them both and get something reliable before your data bites
> the dust.
> 
>> I also have a Maxtor 300Gb external drive for backup purposes.
> 
> Oh God. You know how to pick 'em don't you? See previous comment.

Thanks for the vote of confidence in my hard drive selections! I would 
appreciate some advice on what hard drive manufacturer is reliable.

Bill

On Sat, 12 Jan 2008 03:49:36 -0800, William Usim <bill-u@comcast.net>
wrote:

> The old system had the following hard drives:
> 
> Western Digital WD600-JB 60Gb mfg in 2003
> IBM Deskstar 80 Gb Mfg in 2002

Ugh!

> I have an external case with a USB interface that I can use for one of 
> the above. Any suggestions as to which might be more reliable?

Neither. Junk them both and get something reliable before your data bites
the dust.

> I also have a Maxtor 300Gb external drive for backup purposes.

On 01/12/08 01:47 pm William Usim wrote:

>>> The old system had the following hard drives:
>>>
>>> Western Digital WD600-JB 60Gb mfg in 2003
>>> IBM Deskstar 80 Gb Mfg in 2002

>> Ugh!

>>> I have an external case with a USB interface that I can use for one

>>> of the above. Any suggestions as to which might be more reliable?

>> Neither. Junk them both and get something reliable before your data
bites
>> the dust.

>>> I also have a Maxtor 300Gb external drive for backup purposes.

>> Oh God. You know how to pick 'em don't you? See previous comment.

> Thanks for the vote of confidence in my hard drive selections! I would 
> appreciate some advice on what hard drive manufacturer is reliable.


Seagate, Seagate, Seagate, or Seagate.

-=-

Brett Carlock wrote:
> What is wrong with Western Digital for IDE? I have 2 WD IDE drives that 
> I have had since 2002 and both are working fine. One even survived a 
> powersupply explosion on the XBOX that I later pulled it from.
> 
Thanks to all for the advice.

Since both the IBM and WD were in the system that was having problems I 
gave both away with the system. I warned the fellow about the random 
problems in the system. He will probably never run into a problem. Since 
I now only need a drive for external backup use I will look into Seagate 
and Samsung drives. I did not know that Samsung made hard drives. Learn 
something new every day.

A Happy New Year to all!

Bill