Seagate to Purchase Maxtor

[John Boffemmyer IV]

I have a Connor 4.x GB model laying about, it did 
power up and work last time I used it (several months ago).
-John Boffemmyer IV

At 04:29 AM 12/22/2005, you 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
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