Laptop HDD - Hitachi, Fujitsu, Seagate, Toshiba...

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Any brands to avoid or seek? I'm looking at putting a 30G 5200 rpm
drive into my laptop and would like to avoid any obvious lemons.

TIA!


Neil Maxwell - I don't speak for my employer
 
Any brands to avoid or seek? I'm looking at
putting a 30G 5200 rpm drive into my laptop
and would like to avoid any obvious lemons.
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There's bugger all in it apart from the specs.

The Toshibas arent as good for diagnostics from the manufacturer.
 
Didn't Hitachi buy IBM's drive business? If so, I would avoid them -
I've experienced very many whining IBM laptop drives, and in fact just
replaced one that was whining in an Inspiron 5000 with a Toshiba 80GB
(from newegg).
 
Didn't Hitachi buy IBM's drive business? If so, I would avoid them -
I've experienced very many whining IBM laptop drives, and in fact just
replaced one that was whining in an Inspiron 5000 with a Toshiba 80GB
(from newegg).
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Yep, they seem to be listed as Hitachi/IBM. I didn't know if there
were problems with the laptop drives similar to the old Deskstar
drives (mine have never failed yet).

Whining drives are a big no-no for this app. Thanks for the input.


Neil Maxwell - I don't speak for my employer
 
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