[ubuntu-uk] Hard drive- Bad sectors

[David King]

Alan Lord (News) wrote:
>
> I have tended toward Samsung (1st choice) or Hitachi (2nd) for HDDs for 
> years now. Not had one every fail - yet. (But I still take nightly backups)
>
> Al
>
>   
I have had a Hitachi DeskStar go bad recently. They are even nicknamed 
DeathStar due to a high failure rate years ago when the brand was still 
owned by IBM.

Samsung drives have so far been good for me.


david