[mdlug-discuss] Westren Digital foot shooting

[Aaron Kulkis]

Michael Rudas wrote:
> Garry Stahl wrote:
> 
>> http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2007/12/western-digital.html
>> Well they lost me as a customer.  I use to like WD.  Their drives out
>> number all the others I have.
> 
> Yeah, me too.  And then there's the Linux "sleep" problem with the
> ironically-named Seagate "Free Agent" external drives -- though there
> IS a fix for that one, I still think that it shows poor planning &
> testing on their part...
> 
> With Maxtor gone, I guess that leaves Hitachi and Samsung.

IBM still makes excellant drives...

with the added bonus that now that they're on the Linux
bandwagon, they are not Linux-hostile like some hardware
manufacturers.