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From: Baron on 27 Dec 2009 11:19
- Bobb - Inscribed thus:

>
> "JD" <No.Reply(a)Sorry.com> wrote in message news:4b3525bd$0$2491
>> On laptops I personally will only do screens, keyboards, memory,
>> HDD's and software problems, anything that involves stripping the
>> laptop's down I point them in the direction of a laptop specialist,
>> its usually not worth the bother as laptops are so cheap nowadays.
>>
>> Merry Christmas!
>> JD
>
> If I might ask: any input on good vs. bad drives ?
> Family has a laptop where the hdd died. I was looking at BestBuy today
> and they had WD 2.5 IDE drives there, but I'm not keen on WD. All the
> Seagates were SATA, so I left empty-handed. My experience with WD was
> years ago - are they any better now ? Preference of drive ?
> It was an Hitachi Travelstar that died in there - 3 yrs old.

WD are one of the few remaining independent HDD manufacturers left.
I won't give "Fujitsu" house room.

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Best Regards:
Baron.
From: JD on 27 Dec 2009 11:44
- Bobb - wrote:
> "JD" <No.Reply(a)Sorry.com> wrote in message news:4b3525bd$0$2491
>> On laptops I personally will only do screens, keyboards, memory, HDD's and
>> software problems, anything that involves stripping the laptop's down I
>> point them in the direction of a laptop specialist, its usually not worth
>> the bother as laptops are so cheap nowadays.
>>
>> Merry Christmas!
>> JD
>
> If I might ask: any input on good vs. bad drives ?
> Family has a laptop where the hdd died. I was looking at BestBuy today and
> they had WD 2.5 IDE drives there, but I'm not keen on WD. All the Seagates
> were SATA, so I left empty-handed. My experience with WD was years ago - are
> they any better now ? Preference of drive ?
> It was an Hitachi Travelstar that died in there - 3 yrs old.
>
>
it's all down to personal choice I guess, my 1st choice is WD's I've
never had a problem with them, but I hear some people do, Maxtor's are
the ones that usually fail on me, and maxtor and segate are the same
company now.

All HDD's are prone to failing tho as is anything with moving parts, you
can now get SSD's (Solid State Drive's) these have there own problems
(limited writes, before corruption, still a bit pricey tho you can get a
64GB drive for �99)

The Place I usually buy HD's from only stock 3 IDE HDD's, two of them
are Samsungs and one is Western Digital, I like both Samsung and WD but
the samsung is twice the size, same spin speed and cach so I'd go for
the samsung as its only �2 more.

JD
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