Seagate to Purchase Maxtor

[Jim Leonard]

Philip Pemberton wrote:
> As far as drive failures go, I've had one Maxtor 40GB fail and a Seagate 2GB

The only drives that have failed on my like clockwork have been the Plus 
Hardcard drives.  The EEPROMS give up the ghost after about 10 years, no idea 
why.  I have three and they're all non-functional (they need working BIOSes to 
work, unfortunately, can't use them in "dumb" mode).

I pulled a dead Quantum out of a 386SX last week, about 80MB I think.  Horrible 
grinding noise; I believe the head was tracing a nice groove into a platter :-)

Western Digital drives don't fail on me as much as they "pause for no good 
reason".  I have WD 600ABs in my RAID and for no reason they'll just decide to 
lock up for 1-8 seconds on a write (never a read).  I've checked SMART and it's 
not errors -- thermal recalibration maybe?
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