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Seagate 400GB hard drive - China or Singapore? - timg - 08-14-2006
Any difference in quality, etc. between the two manufacturing sites?
Re: Seagate 400GB hard drive - China or Singapore? - Racer X - 08-14-2006
Gut reaction is, if I had a choice, Singapore.
Re: Seagate 400GB hard drive - China or Singapore? - timg - 08-14-2006
That would be my reaction as well, but thought I would ask if there was any known issues with either site.
Re: Seagate 400GB hard drive - China or Singapore? - Racer X - 08-14-2006
There was the well known IBM Deskstar GXP60 issue with drives from one plant having an almost 50% failure rate, but the other plant was almost perfect. (Hungary and malaysia I believe) They were cranking them out because demand was so high, that QC went down the toilet at one of the plants.
Re: Seagate 400GB hard drive - China or Singapore? - Silencio - 08-14-2006
[quote Racer X]There was the well known IBM Deskstar GXP60 issue with drives from one plant having an almost 50% failure rate, but the other plant was almost perfect. (Hungary and malaysia I believe) They were cranking them out because demand was so high, that QC went down the toilet at one of the plants.
IIRC re the Deathstar debacle: Thailand good. Hungary BAD.
Re: Seagate 400GB hard drive - China or Singapore? - Racer X - 08-14-2006
Yeah. I got 3 bad replacements, all from hungary, before they sent me a new Thailand one.