Vesalia's Seagate HD?

[vpcs]

I've had more Maxtors fail then anything else. Seagate is the way to go ofter about 100 different seagate drives I haven't lost 1 yet. Western Digital comes in 2nd best...

[srg86]

I definatly agree that it's about your experiences as I know of a guy on the AMD forum who hates seagate with all it's worth.

srg

[Holley]

Yeah, all the manufacturers have some bad models and some good, depending how far back you go.  I have a 160Mb Quantum GoDrive that worked flawlessly in my A1200 for a couple of years, which kinda illustrates the point ;-)

[Merc]

At work we resell a lot of Dell GX-50 and 60 desktops.  They have little low-profile Maxtor 20 gig hard drives in them, and we must have had at least 20 of them come back with dead hard drives in the last year (out of probably 50 or 60 that we've sold)  :-o

Not surprisingly, Dell replaces them under warranty with mostly Western Digital or Seagate.  Personally I've used WD, IBM, Maxtor, Seagate, and Fujitsu on Amigas and PC's, and only one has ever developed issues -- the WD 40 gig I got back from RMA after I sent the original in due to it being really noisy.  Its replacement has recently developed some bad sectors.

The only other HD trouble I had was with my original 80 meg Segate that came in my 1200 when I got it used.  I bought it with the understanding that the HD didn't work, but when I first turned it on, it booted right up  :-D Once in a while though it wouldn't spin up and would need a little shake to get spinning.

[Hyperspeed]

Hrrrm, that's strange Holley...

I know that if i turned off CPU caches from the Early Boot Menu on my
Blizzard 1230-IV then it worked but got extremely hot.

Eventually I'd get the red screen indicating ROM failure. Either this
was to do with the Kickstart remapping or just general overheating or
incompatibility.

Motherboard revision must play a big role in Amiga compatibility
issues too!

Noone has commented on a chain of solid state drives though, there's
no way they can `fail' is there!

Okay so they may be much slower, but with a decent SCSI system thy can
do 6mb/s!

[MAD]

Hoya!

Many thanks for your answers!

I think I will go for the Seagate then! ;-)

As for flashing the ROM... Well, (too?) MANY shop assistants think computer=peecee...

Amiga über Alles! ;-)

Be funky

M A D

[PMC]

I must be doing something wrong, I've never had a dead HDD.  

My ex had a Maxtor in her PC, which had problems with bad sectors etc and was then put in my Amiga where it's worked okay since.  I've had to be careful how I partition it though...  Not surpisingly I take regular backups!

My original HDD was a Western Digital Caviar with 420mb, later replaced with a Samsung with 4.3gb.  This was supplemented with the dodgy Maxtor soon after, giving a total of 15mb which was (is) a vast amount of storage space for an Amiga without broadband.

My storage hungry PC has just been gifted an additional 80gb which is already 20% full after a LAN session last weekend, but there's lots of room for my WinUAE stuff.

[X-ray]

@ Brian

I also have a 3.2g Quantum Fireball, and it is rock solid reliable. Have had no problems at all with it, and it has been used first on my Amiga, then reformatted on a PC and used there, then used back on the Amiga. You'd think the thing would have commited suicide on principle because I used it in a PC...

@ Hyperspeed

lol @ Anal-Logic !!!

So I shouldn't try to buy a Kylwalda from them, eh?

[Hyperspeed]

@ X-Ray

No! Don't go anywhere near them!

:-D

They sent back my Amiga and wrote the address over the Desktop
Dynamite packaging.

It was the wrong address and had to pick it up from down the road
(lucky we had similar house numbers!)

They had on their adverts "Repairs while you wait"... customers should
have been told "Wait 3 months" and maybe "Then we'll deny you ever
paid us!"

;-) ;-)

What a bunch of chimps.

[adz]

Prior to my current WD Raptor, I have always been Seagate fan, although I did have some major problems with a 10GB U4 series drive, but aside from that, they have always performed flawlessly. As a plus, their after sales support is great and their RMA procedure is real simple.