[ale] Maxtor drives

[James P. Kinney III]

On Thu, 2003-05-29 at 13:37, Jeff Layton wrote:
> James P. Kinney III wrote:
> 
> >Maxtor had a problem with their 20G's a while back. I have had horrible
> >experiences with them. Western Digital and Seagate  have been _very_
> >reliable for my systems.
> >
> 
> That's funny. I've had pretty good luck with WD and
> HORRIBLE luck with Seagate (I lose one about
> every 6 months and I only have 2).
> 
> Jeff

Seagate had some problems with some controller hardware on the 30G for a
while. They also had a platter issue with one batch of 10G before that. 

I have a personal pref for the cheetah series in either IDE or SCSI.
That has been very reliable. Both WD and Seagate make a consumer series
that is not very good. I think they do the quality tests and what fails
gets the cheap label and what passes is called a cheetah or barracuda. 

I'm pretty sure the motherboard makers do this as well for the bulk
purchases they make for Dell, HP, etc. The ones that pass the tightest
specs _they_ sell with their label. The rest they farm out by the
truckload to OEM's.

Thus speaketh Jim, the jaded one of hardware headaches.
> >>
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