softworkz 3338 Posted September 3, 2023 Share Posted September 3, 2023 Another reason to use SCSI was that with IDE and its Interrupt 13 arbitration, Windows often came to hang for short (or longer) moments. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TMCsw 122 Posted September 4, 2023 Share Posted September 4, 2023 When it comes to reliability you really need to look at the MODELS, NOT just the manufacture. Most all brands have good and bad models! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronstang 202 Posted September 4, 2023 Share Posted September 4, 2023 2 hours ago, TMCsw said: When it comes to reliability you really need to look at the MODELS, NOT just the manufacture. Most all brands have good and bad models! I agree with this but I am sorry, if a company has bitten me more than once with different models I don't care how good people claim the newer version is, I can't and won't trust them especially when there are many companies out there that haven't bitten me and Seagate has left me with dead drives on more occasions than any other brand. A failure is just that, multiple failures is a trend. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
softworkz 3338 Posted September 4, 2023 Share Posted September 4, 2023 9 hours ago, Ronstang said: I agree with this but I am sorry, if a company has bitten me more than once with different models I don't care how good people claim the newer version is, I can't and won't trust them especially when there are many companies out there that haven't bitten me and Seagate has left me with dead drives on more occasions than any other brand. A failure is just that, multiple failures is a trend. I think the same - my own "blacklist" of manufacturers was just a little different. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
softworkz 3338 Posted September 4, 2023 Share Posted September 4, 2023 12 hours ago, TMCsw said: When it comes to reliability you really need to look at the MODELS, NOT just the manufacture. Most all brands have good and bad models! That's true unfortunately. Even though what you actually want are manufacturers which you can trust to provide a decent level of quality without doing research before each purchase. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronstang 202 Posted September 5, 2023 Share Posted September 5, 2023 12 hours ago, softworkz said: I think the same - my own "blacklist" of manufacturers was just a little different. As would be expected. Different people experience different things depending upon random sampling and factors like models used, how you use them, heat etc. and in your case you were talking about drives from many years ago and you had SCSI. All I ever had were IDE and SATA and the newer SATA drives seem to be more reliable on the whole except for Seagate for me. I have 3 WD 500GB drives that are over a decade old that still work and some were in machines on all the time until recently. By far the largest heap of drives I have are Hitachi and those have been rock solid for me for over a decade. I have a drive in my hand that is dated 2010...still works fine but its an on the shelf archive drive now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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