[ale] difference among Seagate, WesternDigital & Maxtor ?

[tejus at vijedi.net (tejus at vijedi.net)]

I've never had a hard-drive fail (knocks on wood) but for a desktop system, 
I'd take seagate over everything else.  The reason? Noise. 

The seagate's are barely audible when idling and just a soft tapping when 
active.  My maxtor's sound like a high-speed notebook fan while idling and 
like somebody using one of those old IBM "clicky" keyboards when it's 
actually doing work. 

The few WD drives I have are in noisy and/or out of the way places, so I 
don't know how they compare. 


Tejus 

Courtney Thomas writes: 

> I need a new IDE drive and apparently Seagate, Western Digital and 
> Maxtor have it to themselves, though I'm receptive if others are more 
> for less. 
> 
> Is there any significant difference among them that I should be aware 
> of, or just get the biggest I can find for the least cost ? 
> 
> Appreciatively, 
> 
> Courtney
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