In article <199709261958.PAA07406@jfwhome.funhouse.com> you write:
> For just about any manufacturer, you can find someone with a horror story.
> I've had a bad run of Maxtors (plus bad luck with one particular Maxtor drive
> at a former employer), and like Quantum; someone I know had a DOA Quantum
> drive which Quantum replace with subsequent DOA drives twice.  I've heard lots
> of complaints about Seagate and Western Digital, and nothing but praise for
> Fujitsu and IBM (though I don't doubt there is someone else with the exact
> opposite story).

I'll second that on Fujitsu.  We have 3 of them, all different models
bought at differnet times, and we've been very happy with them.  The
oldest is a big (full height 5.25") 1G drive that we've had for ~6 years
now, running 24/7 all that time (minus maintnance, extended power
outages, etc, of course...).  This is in a somewhat dusty and
not-well-air-conditioned building and most of that time it's been in
mediocre enclosures, too. 

Fujitsu alsways tops my list of names to look for when buying a new hard
drive. (The bottom, of course, is Seagate. :->)

Others I've spoken to were all equally happy. Too bad not many places
carry them. Megahaus (www.megahaus.com) does, but I've not bought one
through them. I think we got all three through APS, but APS doesn't seem
to carry Fujitsu anymore, or at least they don't push them.