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Drive companies change over time...
As someone who used to write firmware for a major drive company, I can tell you that the quality of drives produced by a company changes over time. It has to do with personnel changes, management keeping their eyes on the ball, overall financial health of the company, when companies decide to jump to new technologies with a new learning curve, etc. This can even happen between various drive families of the same manufacturer. The technology is always on the bleeding edge, and drive manufacturing is as much an art as a science.

Many people have painful stories about massive drive failures from one of the manufacturers that happened to them a long time ago. It's not surprising that as a result they vowed to never again buy drives from that manufacturer. But *every* drive company has cycled through periods of good drive quality and poor drive quality. It's a simple fact of the business for the reasons I outlined above.

As a general rule beyond this particular Seagate problem, if it's been a few years since your last horrible experience with a drive company, and you are having problems with your current drive company, it's probably worth evaluating the previous drive company again.
Posted by: zackers   Posted on: 12/13/08 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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