My most reliable drives have been IBMs (of all types--SCSI, IDE, 3.5", 2.5", and also floppy drives) followed by Conner desktop drives (not laptop drives) and Quantums of capacities other than 80MB.
I distrust Toshiba (all of mine have died, ranging in vintage from 1987-2005) and Maxtor.
A thought--have MTBF figures been accurate on these drives over the years? Those of us who have owned Macs since the day they were purchased should know about how long we have used our machines and, especially on older Macs where we can't spin down the drives by hand, should have some idea how close the drive is to that MBTF interval.
(I wish hard drive manufacturers would give us the standard deviation of that MTBF number as well as the median and mode, as I feel it could help us in the long run--the mean may be accepted by most as the de facto standard of central tendency figures, but it isn't always the best or only option).
Does anyone know the MTBF on these Quantums, or, for that matter, any of Apple's stock drives (MiniScribe, Conner, etc)?
I distrust Toshiba (all of mine have died, ranging in vintage from 1987-2005) and Maxtor.
A thought--have MTBF figures been accurate on these drives over the years? Those of us who have owned Macs since the day they were purchased should know about how long we have used our machines and, especially on older Macs where we can't spin down the drives by hand, should have some idea how close the drive is to that MBTF interval.
(I wish hard drive manufacturers would give us the standard deviation of that MTBF number as well as the median and mode, as I feel it could help us in the long run--the mean may be accepted by most as the de facto standard of central tendency figures, but it isn't always the best or only option).
Does anyone know the MTBF on these Quantums, or, for that matter, any of Apple's stock drives (MiniScribe, Conner, etc)?