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Rod Speed
Why would you avoid Seagates?
They basically get too warm for my taste and I dont like the way
they have a rubber mat over the metal and logic, that means that
they can only get rid of heat by conduction to the drive bay stack.
Thats not quite so bad now with the Barracuda V, but they
still have a metal cover over the logic card, with a foam layer
between that and the ics etc. Not my idea of good engineering.
And you void the warranty if you take it off too.
It is my impression they are very quiet
They've just got louder now that Seagate had a massive brain fart on
purported patent infringement with AAM and took the silly way out of
just disabling that so it runs in noisy mode whether you like it or not.
and very reliable
Just replaced one that developed some bad sectors
in a coupla months. Installed by someone else.
- at least as of a year or so ago. Have things changed with Seagate?
Not significantly except with that AAM terminal stupidity.