[plug] Not happy Jan!

[John Breen]

The mode of transportation has probably caused some of your problems, but
I've got a range of different brands at home, all of which went through
phases of being "I wouldn't buy that if I were you"...

Funnily enough, the only 2 hard drives I've ever had fail on me were a
Conner and a Seagate SCSI.

Anyway, since it seems that we're getting rapidly off-topic at this point, I
think I'll just shut up....


----- Original Message -----
From: "Brad Campbell" <brad at seme.com.au>
To: <plug at plug.linux.org.au>
Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2001 2:16 PM
Subject: Re: [plug] Not happy Jan!


> John Breen wrote:
> >
> > 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...
>
> I think I have had unfortunate luck with Maxtor drives..
> Then again, I have had failures with WD & Seagate as well..
> It has just been my experience that in 5 years and maybe 30 Quantum drives
I
> have never had a failure, and there all still ticking along nicely, in
much abused
> shock-prone and rough environments..
> The Maxtors probably would have been ok if I did not take my PC home every
night
> and transport it by chucking it in the back of the car..
> Having said that, My Quantum fireball's have taken that abuse every
working day for
> 5 years and not had a problem.
>
>
> --
> Brad....
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