Subj : Grrrrr...
To   : FRANK REID
From : ROB MCCART
Date : Wed Apr 13 2005 06:18 pm

FR>Ya know, both a buddy of mine and I had Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9 (6Y080L0)
  >go bad within the past week.  I thought it was just coincidence, but I
  >joked about how they must've been time-bombed!  Now I'm starting to
  >wonder!  :)

FR>Fortunately, I had mine in a RAID configuration with a Western Digital
  >WD800BB, so I didn't lose anything like he did

You see discussions like this from time to time.. and it always
comes back with bad drives showing up from, probably certain
production runs, for virtually all makes. I swore I'd never own
another Western Digital after problems I and others had with Them,
but Maxtors my friends had seemed bullet-proof. Others said the
opposite.. The place I bought my last system said SamSung was crap
but Maxtor and Western Digital were about equally okay..  "Fair"
The only one they said they really liked was Seagate.. I got a
160 gig Seagate just in case they were right. It's still running
3 months later...  Who knows ?    B)

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