On Sunday 19 April 2009 11:02:55 Alan Pearson wrote: > Without being funny, I wouldn't touch a moxtor drive with yours. > > I look after about 500 spinning disks in our company (from servers to > desktops) and out of the 8 drive failures I've had in 3 years, 4 have > been maxtor. > Plus I've had the misfortune to have 2 fail at home, and I swear I'll > never, ever, touch one again, no matter how cheap they are. > > I've got Seagate drives spinning from many years ago, and they're the > only ones I'll buy now.
Seagate purchased Maxtor several years ago. They are now the same company. > > But Dustins right, the minute you see stuff like that from a drive, > return it or bin it, it's not worth even messing about with the > manufacturer utilities which may relocated bad sectors etc, the drive > has past it's 'trust level'. I agree. The Seagate/Maxtor 1TB drives from the last year seem to have been particularly bad. I've purchased a couple dozen and I've had to return five in the last year. Fortunately Seagate has a pretty easy RMA/return procedure. Just go to the website and they'll generate an RMA along with shipping instructions right there. You don't even have to speak to a person. -- -------------------------------------------------------------- Jeffrey Anderson | [email protected] Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory | Mailstop 50a-5101 Phone: 510 486-4208 | Fax: 510 486-6808
