Subj : Re: Raid + Lvm, Anyone?
To   : ROB MCCART
From : Mindless Automaton
Date : Wed Oct 19 2005 12:20:00

ROB MCCART wrote:

> I'd say so, although there are those who like them better
> than Maxtor. When deciding what drive to get for the system I
> was building last winter I asked around and got horror stories
> about almost every drive made. The only one that seemed to be
> generally better on average was Seagate, so that's what I ended
> up getting...  So far so good...   B)
> 

I have a ton of hard drives that work & don't work. :)

Personally, I've had 3 Maxtors that failed.. one mechanically.

I have 2 80 gig WD drives now and the only problem I have is if
I try to install them with another brand of harddrive, they refuse
to function, but together, they work fine.. go figure.

For Seagate, I have yet to have a failure except for the 40MB drive
I dropped.. It doesn't seem to work anymore.. :)

In fairness, the Maxtors were used with Win9x and the problems could
be interpreted as software corruption.  I was able to recover my data
and reformat the drives and use them still.

I've had a Fujitsu with the same software problem.. (Windows not found/
does not boot)  Same deal, I can recover, reformat, use it.  I just
try not to use Win9x anymore. :)

Can't say I've had a drive fail using linux, but then I don't really
use it often. :o

-Mindless Automaton
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