[X4U] Seagate 1 TB hard drive issue not loading on desktop...

[John Baltutis]

On 1/25/11,  Tim Kinsella <timk at iapc.net> wrote:
>
> And what ones do you buy ??  Let us know!!?

On Jan 25, 2011, at 8:24 PM, John Baltutis <baltwo at san.rr.com> wrote:
> On 1/25/11, cat soul <catsoul at thinkplan.org> wrote:
>> On Jan 24, 2011, at 12:20 PM, John Baltutis wrote:
>>> On 1/23/11, LAL <lalicata at alum.rpi.edu> wrote:
>
> I forgot to mention that I won't buy any ext HD that proprietary "sleep"
> crapola installed, especially stuff that can't be readily removed by the Mac
> OS. That rules out some current Seagates and most WD HDs. I prefer to roll my
> own using Macally enclosures and bare HDs. FWIW, I've only had one HD go bad
>in
> over twelve years. The ones I put into my G4 450 MP nine years ago are still
> going strong.

I've bought these the past three years: Hitachi 1 TB Deskstar  SATA 7200 RPM 32
MB Cache Internal Hard Drive HD31000 IDK/7K (4/10) and Seagate ST3750640AS
Barracuda 750 GB SATA 3.0GB/s Internal Hard Drive (4/08)