Subj : Re: Grrrrr...
To   : Belly
From : Sniper
Date : Wed Apr 13 2005 11:15 am

-=> Belly wrote to Angus Mcleod <=-

 Be>   Re: Grrrrr...
 Be>   By: Angus Mcleod to Frank Reid on Tue Apr 12 2005 09:49 am

 >  > Fortunately, I had mine in a RAID configuration with a Western Digital
 >  > WD800BB, so I didn't lose anything like he did (also, a ton of "personal"
 >  > collected stuff).  It's still in the "broken" status until I get around t
 >  > slapping another drive in there, though.
 >
 > Jesus!  If the day has finally come that a Western Digital drive is used
 > as a standard of reliability, it's time I drank the hemlock!

 Be> They used to suck hard back in the 90s... I think they have improved,
 Be> though, just judging by seat-of-the-pants statistics based on warranty
 Be> issues with PCs that I have sold. We stopped selling Maxtor about a
 Be> year ago, when we noticed a slight trend (didn't I say this already?)

 Be> I can tell you this though: We sold a metric assload of Samsung IDE
 Be> drives a few years ago (we stopped buying them because of supplier
 Be> issues) and we have NEVER had one come back dead. Hmmm. I need to look
 Be> into them again.

For my home machines, I use a bunch of different drives... the big boy
has all Samsung drives in it though... 40 primary and 160 secondary...
But I tend to keep the same make of HD in each machine... example, I
have a couple of Maxtor drives in this Linux machine... they are older
drives, a 40 and a 60, but have never had any problems with them... 

As for clients... if you say the Dell machines with Maxtors are going to
be a problem, I'll add it to my list to check out... Appreciate that
notice... 

Personally, I haven't had any noticable problems with any hard drives in
a long time.  All my rebuilds are user created...  <I was following the
instructions on how to format a disk... It said type in format c: and
that's what I did.>  Type crap.

:)





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