Just bought...

[Stephen!]

The new "Maxtor" drives are very reliable. The old ones before they got bought by Seagate are the ones to watch out for.

[Plux]

LOL MAXTOR LOL

No but seriously maxtor is dead.

Maxtors great.

[Metric1]

what kind of hard-drive does HP use?

[Plux]

How the hell are we supposed to know? They're not going to go out and shout: WE USE MAXTOR HDDS!"

[Metric1]

well dell uses western digital and they don't exactly try to hide it?

[N!ck]

well dell uses western digital and they don't exactly try to hide it?

Well Dell try to be as cheap as possible, and Western Digitals are generally cheap so that is why. WD don't have the bast record in reliability to be fair though.

Wouldn't surprise me if the drive in the HP was Hitachi or Samsung.

[Plux]

Well Dell try to be as cheap as possible, and Western Digitals are generally cheap so that is why. WD don't have the bast record in reliability to be fair though.

Wouldn't surprise me if the drive in the HP was Hitachi or Samsung.

rofl. WD are crap !

I recently bought a 500gb Maxtor Basic External HDD.
It's brilliant.

[Metric1]

I like the HP, it's working good so far.

Should I unplug it when it's not in use?

[N!ck]

I like the HP, it's working good so far.

Should I unplug it when it's not in use?

Nah, shouldn't be necessary. Most external HDDs will power down the driv after a while of not being accessed and then power it on again when you need it anyway.