| From: | Matt Sealey |
| Date: | 16 Sep 2000 at 17:35:09 |
| Subject: | Re: Seagate hardrive |
Hello darren
On 16-Sep-00, you wrote:
> I am about to buy a used 4.3gig IDE seagate hard drive for £37. Is this a
> good price? I know that seagates can be problematic but I need a larger
> drive fast. It also comes with a 30 day warranty. I am buying it from a
> place called forrest trading, has anyone heard of them? Here is the URL:
> http://www.geocities.com/foresttrading/web.htm
Seagate drives are notoriously unreliable in my eyes, we've had so many
of them fail at work that it's a wonder we still buy them (I literally sighed
on Friday as I opened a delivery of four new disks to find they were Seagate)
Get a Maxtor (loud, but reliable), Quantum (middling-to-average, slightly
clicky) or Fujitsu (temperamental with older drives, but otherwise excellent)
drive, you'll find that they're not really that different in price and you'll get
a whole lot more use out of them (like a few years :) than the equivalent
Seagate.
I've never heard of Forrest Trading, and to be honest I wouldn't trust any
company who has a site hosted on Geocities, of all places.
As for the price, £37 is bloody good for a 4.3GB drive. Then again, at first
glance I don't trust the drive manufacturer or the company selling it. Do
what you wish :)
Thanks
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