Seagate to Purchase Maxtor

[Mike Maginnis]

On 12/22/05, Philip Pemberton <philpem at dsl.pipex.com> wrote:
> In message <200512212211200240.072AFC9B at 10.0.0.252>
>           "Chuck Guzis" <cclist at sydex.com> wrote:
>
> > Atasi...the list is endless.  The only drive I really, really didn't like
> > was JTS.
>
> Never used a Kalok then? Those things were nasty...
>
> As far as drive failures go, I've had one Maxtor 40GB fail and a Seagate 2GB
> develop sticktion. Interestingly enough, the Quantum-designed drives (D740X
> especially) don't seem to be as failure-prone as the newer "pureblood" Maxtor
> drives. DiamondMax 8 slimlines are truly crap as far as reliability goes.
> That said, you buy cheap, you get cheap - DM8s are (or at least were) the
> absolute cheapest drives Maxtor made. I usually pick drives from somewhere in
> the middle of the capacity range, and aim to pay around £65-£80 per drive.
>
> Notice how most of the people whining "XYZ drives are crap" are the
> cheapskates that went and bought the £30 "white box" OEM drives... Cheap
> is generally synonymous with "crap" in the world of hard drives, IME.
>
> On a lighter note, anyone ever had a Conner drive? I've got a CFS425 that I
> pulled out of a 1996-model Acorn RiscPC600. It's nearly ten years old and
> it's still fully functional. Now *that's* engineering.
>
> Later.
> --
> Phil.                              | Acorn RiscPC600 SA220 64MB+6GB 100baseT
> philpem at philpem.me.uk              | Athlon64 3200+ A8VDeluxe R2 512MB+100GB
> http://www.philpem.me.uk/          | Panasonic CF-25 Mk.2 Toughbook
> ... If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.
>

My circa 1985 First Class Peripherals Sider 10 Meg drive still works
like a champ.  Cost me ~ $700.  Not sure who manufactured the drive
itself - I'll have to open it up and take a look when I get home
tonight.

I swore off Maxtor earler this year after having one of those
DiamondMax junkers go south on me.  And it's replacement.  And the RMA
Maxtor sent me...  Good gods, those things get hot...

- Mike