[plug] Not happy Jan!

[daniel kerr]

I agree Ive dealt with seagates a lot over the years and quite often you get
a certain model that tends to have more failures than others. I think it
just depends a lot on the luck of the one you purchase.
----- Original Message -----
From: John Breen <wombat at wa.apana.org.au>
To: <plug at plug.linux.org.au>
Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2001 1:47 PM
Subject: Re: [plug] Not happy Jan!


> 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.
> > >
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