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Originally posted by Ned
Wraith, Design for Six Sigma is required for all design centers. Six Sigma itself is required for every director and above.
Just the design? That doesn't mean a lot. You need to put it in the manufacturing plants to do any good.
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We're going with the 8" Radio Shack diskette drives!!!
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Just the design? That doesn't mean a lot. You need to put it in the manufacturing plants to do any good.
It is. Just that Seagate took Six Sigma, which is all about process control and moved it into the disc drive design. This is where Seagate is different from others even if they have Six Sigma.
6 Sigma should be both design and manufacturing. Otherwise it is no good. You can design a HDD with very tight specs, but if the controls aren't there in the plants, it still won't make a difference.
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(='.'=) "Claims demand evidence; extraordinary claims demand extraordinary evidence." -- Carl Sagan
(")_(") "Starting the fire from within."
can't beat the WD SE drives with the 8MB buffers!!!!!!!!
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I've been using Maxtor drives for the past six years or so. Only one failure, and it gave plenty of warning before it went (read: I was able to buy a new drive and successfully dumped the contents of the old one into it before it went).
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I've owned several Western Digital drives throught the years and none have ever died on me. I did get a second hand Maxtor my father gave to me while I was in college but it died soon after I installed it. To this day I don't know if it was damaged during transport from my parent's house to my house or if the drive was on death's door step already.
IBM drives have a really good reputation for quality and speed though you have to pay extra to get them. Personnally, I don't think the extra expense is worth it unless you really need the 1-2 milliseconds faster seek time.
For IDE drives, I'd probably go with Western Digital.
I've only used SCSI for years now (currently running Ultra320 SCSI in 10k and 15k RPM drives, and I have them in a RAID 5, so I don't sweat failures), and I've never had a hardware failure on any IBM, Seagate or Quantum SCSI drive, from SCSI-2 on to Ultra320 SCSI.
The most hours I put on any drive were probably 20-30,000. Right now, between various comps, I'm running 15 Ultra320 and 2 Ultra160 drives, with between 3800 and 19,000 hours on them (the high hours on the Ultra160's, which are now relegated to an office comp). None of these, nor my SCSI adapters (all Adaptec 29xx, 29xxx and 39xxx models) have ever failed.
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Probably should've dropped more info, but work beckoned.
Anyway, my Gateway is about putzed out (seems I suffer from the Slot A Thunderbird/Jabil problem). So I was going to cannabalize the good from my system and build a new one. Nothing fancy, just an Athlon XP 1600, etc.
My two 30 gigs are being maxed out now, so I was looking for an 80 gig-er to join them in the new system. I have a Western Digital, but it makes clicking noises and other things that it shouldn't be. Friend of mine has seen the same with his WD. I've had positive experience with IBM drives (by coincidence, my old Acer and the Gateway have them). Others swear by Seagate and I've just gotten bad vibes from Maxtor for some reason.
Seek times and whatnot aren't that important to me (7200 RPM's and ATA/100 and I'm fine), I just want to buy a brand that's known to have good reliability. Not looking to spend too much, so that might leave out the serial ATA right now.
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If you're really concerned about reliability, get 2 drives and a RAID card and mirror them.
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Hard drive space is dirt cheap so I'd go even bigger then 80 Gigs. Even the cheapy computers from the major manufacturers are now shipping with 100gig drives. I bought a Dell three months ago and they throw in a free upgrade from the 80 gig to the 115 gig drive.
Originally posted by Kyle
My two 30 gigs are being maxed out now, so I was looking for an 80 gig-er to join them in the new system.
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(\__/) 07/07/1937 - Never forget
(='.'=) "Claims demand evidence; extraordinary claims demand extraordinary evidence." -- Carl Sagan
(")_(") "Starting the fire from within."
You must have picked up one of the infamous DeathStars...
--"All I suggest is that this has to translate into higher quality than one would normally achieve."
It's certainly what it's meant for, but the warranty-reductions makes me wonder what else is going on. Maybe all the major drive manufacturers by knock-off Taiwanese capacitors.
--"Probably should've dropped more info, but work beckoned."
Seagate or Western Digital are good choices, it sounds like. SATA shouldn't be that much different in price, but you'll need a motherboard or a controller card that will support them.
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