[BBLISA] Whatever happened to Seagate?

[F. O. Ozbek]

On 05/07/2015 03:39 PM, Carl 'Alex' Alexander wrote:
> On 5/5/15 8:11 PM, Chuck Anderson wrote:
>
>  > ... IMO, it is hit-or-miss with any
>  > vendor from year-to-year and model-to-model.
>
> Exactly.
>
> I have to say, I'm a little surprised to see this thread here in 2015.
> Older and wiser heads were flaming me on this topic back in the 20th
> Century.  Since roughly when the first bubble burst, the hard-drive
> market has been too competitive and fluid to make useful comparisons
> between manufacturers:  by the time anyone this side of Google or the
> NSA has seen enough recent drives to discern a pattern among any one
> manufacturer's products, that pattern will have played itself out.
> Past performance, even if there exists a real trend to be found,
> turns out to be orthogonal to future results.
>
> That doesn't mean we can't make useful observations on a smaller
> scale:  We can absolutely learn from one-another's experience
> that firmware 3.7-zeta-9 on Eastern Scribe whizzy series is buggy.
> Or that MiniDigital had a QC issue with the platters in Fucia-
> label FLB-series drives manufactured between Dec. 1, 2014 and Feb 7.
> Any broader generalization, we're just fooling ourselves.
>
> ---Alex
>

Well said. I agree 100%.

-- F. O. Ozbek