Now hard drives too. Re: Modern floppy disk question...

[Philip Pemberton]

In message <e69381633d92ae21a92838dfdad6f977 at rbii.com>
          Gavin Thomas Nicol <gtn at rbii.com> wrote:

> 
> On May 4, 2005, at 6:12 PM, Philip Pemberton wrote:
> 
> > I swear by Maxtors, but I always buy drives from the middle of the 
> > model
> > range.
> 
> About 3 years ago we bought about 40 Maxtor 20GB drives... about 100% 
> failure rate within 2 years, 60% within a year. I've not touched one 
> since.

Eek. That's nasty... Might see if WD have recovered from their quality
"issues" (the Caviar series were pretty dire IIRC). Or Seagate for that
matter - I had pretty bad luck with the 1GB->4GB Medalists, but the 6GB
Medalist and 4GB U4 aren't too bad. The 5-year warranty is a plus, too
(though if you have to jump through burning hoops to get an RMA number...)

Probably helps that the D740X series were effectively Quantum drives - mine
looks like a Quantum, right down to the type and positioning of the label
(it's silkscreened onto the drive casing in black ink - Maxtor use a white
paper label). The only thing that seems to differ from a Quantum is the fact
that it's got Maxtor's logo on it. 'Tis a very nice drive. I've got a 20GB
D740X in the cupboard too, waiting for a use (ran Powermax on it, passed the
selftests - notbad for a hamfest find) :)

Later.
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