On Thursday 10 September 2020, William Morder via tde-users wrote: > On Thursday 10 September 2020 13:06:57 Mike Bird via tde-users wrote: > > On Thu September 10 2020 11:19:35 William Morder via tde-users wrote: > > > I always knew that, if Seagate somehow stays in business, then they > > > must have some customers somewhere. You must be the one. > > > > Seagate shipments for 2019 were just ahead of Western Digital shipments > > with Toshiba trailing well behind. > > > > Over the years it goes in cycles. Manufacturers cut corners until they > > get a crap reputation and then they have to invest to build their > > reputation back. > > > > We've got Seagates, Western Digitals, and even some Maxtors. Some > > of them must be twenty years old. If you protect them from heat > > and physical shock and power surge the MTBF can be over a century. > > > > --Mike > > Yeah, like I said, some of these are 20 years old, and still going. For me, > at least, WD have always been reliable, never failed; I have had a few > Seagates fail on me (2 or 3?) over the years, a Maxtor (still sitting > here), but never Western Digital. > > Besides my own experience, too, among geeks whom I know personally, whose > advice has always been sound: they all swear by WD. But if Kate or others > have good experiences with Seagate, I'll keep it in mind. > > Like you say, things change. Whatever the business, they will eventually > try to cut corners in order to maximize profits, because raising prices is > usually a bad move. > > With these new SSD drives, though, I am in uncharted territory. I passed on > a much cheaper Samsung, but eventually got a WD 1 TB SSD, which so far > (fingers crossed) has performed like a champion. > > Bill > _______________________________________________ > tde-users mailing list -- users@... > To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@... > Web mail archive available at > https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@trinitydeskt >op.org > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- I have a WD SSD 1tb. It's nearly two years old and still going in one of the laptops. Kate