Subj : Re: Raid + Lvm, Anyone?
To   : Angus McLeod
From : The Millionaire
Date : Wed Oct 19 2005 01:05:00

  Re: Re: Raid + Lvm, Anyone?
  By: Angus McLeod to The Millionaire on Wed Oct 19 2005 02:18 am

 >   Re: Re: Raid + Lvm, Anyone?
 >   By: The Millionaire to ROB MCCART on Tue Oct 18 2005 18:37:00
 > 
 >  >  > RM> I had that a while ago with a Western Digital..
 >  >  >
 >  >  > AM>Yes, well that's pretty standard for WD drived, isn't it?  ;-)
 >  >  >
 >  >  > I'd say so, although there are those who like them better
 >  >  > than Maxtor.
 > 
 >  > Maxtor I hear are pretty top notch drives. I have never had a problem wit
 >  > one yet.
 > 
 > I spent 4-5 days at a data-recovery company in Toronto, and I learned
 > something: it varies over time.  For instance, they would recall when they
 > had a run on bad IBM drives, but then they petered out and they started
 > getting loads of Fuji drives in for recovery instead.  I asked about WD
 > and they laughed and said there was ALWAYS a dumpster full of Caviar
 > drives out back... :-)
 > 
 > I guess HD makers have trouble maintaining consistent quality.  They
 > (whoever) will get a batch of bad drives that go out and hit the market.
 > When the problem is identified, they fix the fault on the production line,
 > and quality returns to normal.  But in the mean time 50,000 high-risk
 > drives are at the retailer, waiting for you to buy them....
 > 
 > 
 > 
True. I guess so.

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