[G4] Re: SATA

[Ronald Steinke]

On 18 Apr, 2008, at 4:04 AM, keith_w wrote:

> And I just recently put a Maxtor One-Touch III into service,  
> external on my iMac's FW Bus.... Oh well!
>
> On the other hand, that unit has a 3.5" ATA 300 GB Seagate drive in  
> it, so it ought to be just fine!
> I've had good luck with Seagate drives, so this should be no  
> different.

On average, I handle four to six hard drives each day at the program  
that I volunteer with. Of all the brands that I have experienced  
failures with, I do not see any preponderance of any particular brand.

Failures occur randomly, not according to brand or even age. The  
industry rates the average time before failure for every component,  
but that does not give any guarantee that a particular device will  
actually fail at that "designated" time.

In other words, fellows, buy the brand that you favor, ignore the  
others, and replace it WHEN IT FAILS and don't worry about it ahead of  
time. It won't make your day any less worrisome to fret about  
something that you have absolutely no control over.

Just be sure that you have an adequate backup of your important  
documents!