It was mostly the 1 tb Seagate drives from one factory in Thailand(?) that were bad, iirc. But their quality has gone downhill ever since they bought Maxtor. I buy WDs now, I have only had one of those fail and that was after several years.
I always buy regular internal HDs, stick them in an Addonics enclosure, and format them with Acronic disk manager. I don't really care for most dedicated external drives, they don't have actual on-off switches (1) and a lot of them use proprietary USB cables now (2). (1) The Seagate drives that come on pedestals are like that. They are also not stackable.
(2) WD MyBook's use these, I usually leave USB cables connected in the back, and this fucks with that strategy.
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Date: 2009-07-30 03:14 am (UTC)It was mostly the 1 tb Seagate drives from one factory in Thailand(?) that were bad, iirc. But their quality has gone downhill ever since they bought Maxtor. I buy WDs now, I have only had one of those fail and that was after several years.
I always buy regular internal HDs, stick them in an Addonics enclosure, and format them with Acronic disk manager. I don't really care for most dedicated external drives, they don't have actual on-off switches (1) and a lot of them use proprietary USB cables now (2). (1) The Seagate drives that come on pedestals are like that. They are also not stackable.
(2) WD MyBook's use these, I usually leave USB cables connected in the back, and this fucks with that strategy.