[plug] Not happy Jan!

[John Breen]

I've _still_ got a 500M Maxtor that I've been running with no errors since
1995.  It's dealt with fresh installs of Slackware, RedHat and Debian,
countless upgrades and even with running windoesn't.

I don't think it's fair to say that "Maxtors suck", it's probably just one
batch of bad drives.  WD went through the same thing at about that time from
memory, as did Seagate...  Seems to me it largely depends what you're doing
with the drive, and what you're running on it...


----- Original Message -----
From: "daniel kerr" <kerrdan at iprimus.com.au>
To: <plug at plug.linux.org.au>
Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2001 1:35 PM
Subject: Re: [plug] Not happy Jan!


> Maxtors suck
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Jon Miller <jlmiller at mmtnetworks.com.au>
> To: <plug at plug.linux.org.au>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2001 11:32 AM
> Subject: Re: [plug] Not happy Jan!
>
>
> There was mention of a buyout of Quantum by Maxtor, funny just when
Quantum
> was making a good reliable drive.  Does this mean that Maxtor will use the
> Quantum technology on making good reliable drives and market them as
Maxtor
> drives.  Not sure if I trust that possible situation.  Guess I'll stick to
> Western Digital.
>
> Jon
>
> <<< spodosaurus at start.com.au  3/ 6  2:20p >>>
> I thought Maxtor bought Quantum?  I'm using a new maxtor 7200rpm 15GB
> drive *looks worried*
>
> Ari
>
>
> Original message from: Brad Campbell <brad at seme.com.au>
> >
> >Sorry about this pointless rant, but I have just cracked 200 days
> >uptime on my box, only to find the crappy maxtor drive used for the
> >/ partition is failing, meaning I'm going to have to shut it down..
> >
> >Like I said.. Not happy..
> >3 Maxtors, 3 failures.. I'm going back to Quantum.
> >
> >--
> >Brad....
> >                   /"\
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> >
> >.
> >
>
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