the totally nonscientific, based on anecdote, word for a number of years (since they acquired maxtor) is that seagate drives - fast but crap for reliability.

the totally nonscientific, based on anecdote, word for a number of years (since they acquired maxtor) is that seagate drives - fast but crap for reliability. which is bad since samsung drives have been reasonably good but just got acquired by them...oh well, back to hitachi.