[Gortef]

Oh great, my boss bought himself and his wife new Dell laptops. They runs pretty smoothly though and are quite solid to use...

(actually I sent him that article just in case )

[SadisticSid]

The same goes for drives by Seagate.  Those only last for about 6 months...  If you want good drives, go with Western Digital...those are the stuff...

Bull****.
I think you have that reversed. I have 2 Seagate SATA's that I have had for over a year each and not the slightest hiccup. I had a maxtor that died in 7 months, and a WD that would sporatically fail 7 times in the course of 5 years.

Seagate > * in my book.

Seconded. Out of Maxtor, Hitachi/IBM and Western Digital, I've never had a problem with the half dozen Seagates I've had since '93.

[Colonol Dekker]

Im using a Dell LATITUDE D610 >(standard company issue) right now, Its not that bad, it run half life with no probs at all. FS2 vanilla runs sweet although SCP could run a little smoother.


It can be a bit arsey sometimes but none have exploded in my firm (YET).........

[Tyrian]

I've had...problems...with Seagate drives, usually very shortly after I had purchased them.  Guess I just had bad luck then.  But I second that Dell needs to stick to desktops, but first they need to fix the cooling systems.