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PATA Seagate HDD 500GB

All of my PATA Seagate HDD & NAS boxes 500GB &
under still continue to perform magnificently!

Just bought eight more Seagate 500GB FREEAGENT NAS boxes too...because they've been so faithfully reliable & INEXPENSIVE!

I have not experienced even one HDD hiccup
or failure in 12 years...despite all of the abuses I've subjected them to either thru accident or ignorance! Can't ask for more
than that from any manufacturer.

However I do not plan to ever try out any drives larger than 500GB because I suspect that the frantic race amongst competitors to
keep pushing the volatile storage envelope without first investing in very intense & painfully protracted R&D...seems to always produce an inferior product regardless of the type.

Add to that the fear & panic that the advent of solid state drives have now begun to create
as well...it's really not all that surprising to me to see the ever-growing reports of frequent failures in volatile drives larger than 500GB...by various manufacturers.

Future Storage may become entirely Solid State...at some point...don't you think?

So perhaps they're all now burning thru their volatile HDD parts & stock inventories to
help clear the way forward...towards the inevitable transition to static storage
drives free of failure-prone moving
mechanical parts & platters that must die sooner or later?

That said...I remain a well satisfied Seagate
customer...despite the failures of those much larger volatile drives that I do not and will never own...regardless of who makes them.

But then again...I'm not frantically "Waiting for Godot" either.

Signed...
Contentedly Awaiting More Affordable Solid State thanks to Seagate!

Posted by: michaelleo@...   Posted on: 12/12/08 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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