Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/09/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The IBM disk have a way of braking down in the most devastating ways - we have had quite a few hardisk brake downs over the years but especially the IBMs have been a fortune to fix when we needed the data and had to send them od to the data rescue company - the other disks - i think seagate mostly - all just had to have some small thing replaced and they were up and running - no idea why :-) - did i do my back up to day - yes even I learn from mistakes ----- Original Message ----- From: "Feli di Giorgio" <feli@creocollective.com> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org> Sent: Thursday, September 02, 2004 7:29 PM Subject: Re: [Leica] I'm back and resubscribed > On Thu, 2004-09-02 at 05:25, Brian Reid wrote: > > > During my time at Google, we bought and used hundreds of thousands of disks. > > IBM were the least reliable. Seagate were the most reliable. Maxtor, Western Digital, > >and Toshiba were all about the same. We didn't buy any Quantum. I don't think that Quantum > >is still manufactured by Quantum; I think some other company bought the brand name and > >Quantum got out of the disk business. > > Interesting how times change. IBM used to make really good drives, but > they were expensive.10 years ago Seagate was the king, then junk and now > they are up again. Quantum used to be good, but as you say, I'm not even > sure if they are really still around. > > Thanks, > > Feli > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information