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Putting a Briggs and Stratton in a Porsche?
My hard drive just crashed on my infant M15x. I bought the laptop less than a year ago with the hopes it would be the answer to my data processing/satellite imagery analysis nightmares. It was working well until last night. On the phone with Dell, I learned the laptop uses a Seagate hard drive. Really? A Seagate? Not a Western Digital or Toshiba. That was kind of taking the cheap way out, wasn't it, Dell? If I'd have known that, I'd have just bought the Solid State instead. I suppose the bright side is that I used my college loan money for it. Bad news: WHEN it fails again, the price of the hard drive is on me, and I'll be forced to upgrade to something reliable.
morblore
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August 6th, 2011 00:00
Briggs and Stratton make very good engines.
Geoscba
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August 6th, 2011 10:00
I can't say that I've had very good experience with them. But I think the bigger point of the simile is that, Briggs and Stratton may make a decent, smaller, lower performance product, but they certainly don't make anything big enough, powerful enough, dependable enough, or high-performance enough to put in a top-end machine. Works well enough in a lawn mower, but it's not doing anything for a Z06, capisce?
89fordprobee
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August 6th, 2011 11:00
well as for hdd is allocation sometimes they got one then another .. my M1530XPS(older) had a toshiba drive ...it failed was replaced with a seagate .. my inspiron 17R has a hitachi ... my old M17X r1 had seagate my R2 replacement had seagates the second r2 had western digitals and last one i dunno since i never turned it on ..lol
Electronics are just that .. they mass produce it and dont bother testing just make sure it turns on (IF THAT) and ship it out well when i went out with my buddy got him a 3500.00 sharp aquo's 3d tv .. got home and it didnt turn on lets just say i ran! but i guess they use cheap components aswell when i can get the same tv with SAME LED LCD panel in a no name tv for 1200 bucks
C_ronic
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August 6th, 2011 11:00
Im not defending Alienware cause if had many bad experiences with them. HDDs fail. It really doesnt matter who makes them, Ive had all kinds. SSDs arent much more reliable either. Its just something we have to live with and you should get a RAID 1 config. HDDs are cheap.
goonielife
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August 6th, 2011 16:00
From my experience I wouldn't classify any drive manufacturer as making a hdd for a "Porsche". They all have bad batches, firmware issues, component issues etc... If someone said Western Digital made top of the line drives for top of the line machines I would laugh. The only manufacturers that don't have many stories of bad drives are the ones that aren't very prolific so there simply aren't as many failures because there aren't as many drives out there. I say ditto to C_ronic.
Silverback1138
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August 8th, 2011 09:00
I think Seagate is a good company. The last 3 PC's I put together have both Seagates and WD's. My M1730 has a Samsung SSD and a Hitachi drive. This Zino HD also has a hitachi. I haven't had experience with these prior to buying these 2 PC's from Dell. I can a test to Seagates being great drives though and I think they come close to WD quality.
I just ordered an M11x with the 750GB HDD, Anyone know what drive I should expect to be in there?