I like the price/performance ratio of Maxtor....I got a 160gb 7200 UATA 133
8mb 9ms seek maxtor for $69+tax at compusa....also just picked up a 40gb
7200 UATA 133 2mb 9ms seek maxtor for $41 shipped to replace my crappy old
30gb ata 33 boot drive....i had to replace the controller card on my last
seagate drive because of borken pins, it was my backup drive and it failed
when I NEEDED the backup most....it almost cost me A LOT of money, and
seagate would not sell me a replacement controller card so I had to buy a
whole new drive and swap cards out and return the one with the bad card.
Plus I was supposed to get a $50 mail-in rebate from seagate on another
drive that's been 6 months and I haven't seen a penny. I would stay away
from Seagate, terrible customer service and poor quality control, WD is
okay....Maxtor is the way to go IMHO!

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Jonny Durango

"Patrick was a saint. I ain't."

http://www.jdurango.com



"Monroe" wrote in message
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Looking at upgrading a couple of the drives in my system . . . . audio
drive and sample storage drive. Looking for opinions on the current
crop (say, vs the WD Caviar SE's that I'm replacing . . . . one
dying, other a bit too small). How are the new Maxtor DM10's or the
Seagate 7200.8 UATA's? Not much on the web. Both have interesting
spec's.
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Monroe