Hi Viktor! :-)

 VP> Here is some interesting question i've got: Why in different regions 
 VP> of the world different hard drives manufacturers are percieved 
 VP> totally different?
Around here it's all based on personal experience. I've heard enough
stories of "X makes bad drives" to have every manufacturer turn
up as X at least once. Well, almost. I never heard anything bad about
Samsung drives except for their poor performance (which I don't agree with,
my Samsung 40GB does 30 MB/s and is very quiet even during heavy seeking).

IBM has a very bad reputation here because of their f*cked up DTLA and
early IC35 (I think that was the name) series of drives. Their earlier
drives had a very good reputation, though. Lots of people I know bought
their DTTA 10GB model. I used to have the 16GB model of that series - it
didn't fail on me, I replaced it with the Samsung because I wanted more
space.

Ciao
Pascal

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