[aclug-L] Re: IDE Hard Drives

[Tony Scarpelli <tony@xxxxxxxxx>]

I am a var and sell about 10-30 drives a month and I have only seen about 
1% or less of any drive come back.  I usually see Western Digital but I 
think that is because they sell more than anyone.  I did get a batch of 
Samsung that were all bad (3o r 3) but that could have been the special 
deal I got from that fly by night company?  good price!~@#$%^&

I agree, I think they are all remarkably reliable to the point it is hard 
to make your self backup.  Even me and I know better.  I just rma's a 6.8 
gig maxtor after using it for 1 year.  lost 3 gig of nice mp3's.  God I 
hated to loose that.  never felt I should backem up since they were free.

now I wish I had.

anyway this is the first maxtor I have ever rma'ed

like the argument over scsi or IDE.  Scsi is supposed to be more reliable? 
 many people say not?  Seagate engineer said to buy drives based on 
measurable performance differences because the level of quality is so close 
as not to be ascertainable differences between scsi and IDE.  if that is 
true, is the same true with differences between manufacturers?


On Sunday, December 19, 1999 5:21 PM, Dale W Hodge 
[SMTP:dwh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] wrote:
: > *cough* *cough*
: >
: > Don't buy a Maxtor if you value your data.
:
: Oh really?  I've had Maxtors running 24/7 for 8 years now and no 
problems. I
: can't say the same thing about WD's though.  I think it's more a luck of 
the
: draw sort of thing.  The larger the manufacturer, the more likely  you 
are
: to see their drives, and hence more likely to see a failed drive.
:
: > (There's a reason CompUSA only sells Maxtor drives  :-)
:
: I suspect that CompUSA has a stake in Maxtor.  At least their corporate
: headquarters is two doors down from Maxtor's.  And CompUSA has private
: labeled Maxtor Drives.  Just coincidence?
:
: --dwh
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