[mythtv-users] OT: 3 week old HDD "Clicking" ??

[John Drescher]

On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 10:41 PM, David Brodbeck <gull at gull.us> wrote:
> I wonder if maybe we're barking up the wrong tree by trying to avoid
> specific manufacturers.  It seems to me that the problem is more that every
> manufacturer cranks out batches of good drives and batches of duds.  Seagate
> is the most recent one to have a batch of duds, so they're the one
> everyone's avoiding right now; but at one point it was IBM, before that it
> was Maxtor, and before *that* it was Quantum.
>

I have had bad batches from WD twice. IBM once, Seagate twice. Maxtor
twice. Also Connor, fujitsu.

John