[302damnfast]

What rivals? WDC isn't anyone's rival. The only rival was Maxtor and they just bought Maxtor.

[noblejones]

I've done a lot of design work for Seagate. It's one of the best companies on earth; their only standard is quality.

[upchuck]

I recently bought a Seagate 5GB portable hard disk.

Great little drive. I loaded it up with email, browser, etc from Portable Applications.

Now any computer with a USB port and Internet connection is my computer. Beats carrying around a Notebook computer :)

[AZLiberty]

In the mid-80s, I remember a 140 megabyte hard drive for $10K (and it weighed 40 pounds). Now you can get 2,000 times as much storage for a 100 times less money. Amazing. And it just keeps going.

I saw a presentation today where the speaker took the improvements in processor speed, network bandwidth, and storage and multiplied them together to give the synergistic improvement in our ability to handle information over the last 40 years.

The total: 10³⁸, truly an astronomical number.

[Dallas59]

I bought to SG 160 external for my music. It's been going for 3 months now and not a problem.

[Khurkris]

WD Caviar...nothing else comes close.