On Wed, 1 Sep 2004 15:40:01 -0000 (GMT), Larry Silberstein wrote:
> Gosh, Tony, pardon me for living. :) I didn't realize I'd get the third
> degree here for trying to share my information. There was a posting either
> here or in another forum from a Thinkpad repair shop owner who said he
> frequently was called upon to replace Thinkpad hard drives. He said that
> in his experience Hitachi was not terribly reliable but that Toshiba
> seemed to be the most reliable (the one least frequently needing
> replacement).
My own anecdote is that several of the Thinkpads I'm using came with IBM
supplied Hitachi drives but not one had an IBM supplied Toshiba. If that
observation is an accurate reflection of how IBM supplies computers (and I
have no separate knowledge of this one way or the other) then it would
predict what you recall was claimed by that shop owner but without
implying anything interesting or useful about relative reliability [other
than IBM approves of Hitachi drives - which itself is quite interesting.]
> I understand the difference between scientific data and anecdotal data,
> but until one sees such a scientific study one can only refer to
> andecdotal information. The alternate is to go with sheer pot luck.
Drives are complex mechanical devices and I advise anyone to use them with
the full expectation that they definitely all WILL eventually die, with
all that that implies about making backups and keeping good track of both
purchasing records and warranty information.
Tony
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