I fully agree with that Maxtor warning and was very careful not to get a repackaged drive. I've never owned one of their drives and never plan too.
I guess it's asking to much to actually have my OS warn me when I'm having some unusual rate of bad sectors... but that is what snmp + SMART is for, eh? Sure, don't have it as the default (we wouldn't want to scare Joe-six pack with a warning he won't understand, I guess) but I'd like the option. Finally got smartmontools and it looks like it can be installed as a service. Nice... gotta read more about this tomorrow. Every so often think I should switch my desktop to Linux... but that just has its own headaches. Thanks for all the suggestions and info. Eric On Feb 3, 2008 12:45 AM, Scott Ehrlich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 2 Feb 2008, Eric Smith wrote: > > > > Also, don't forget that Seagate _somewhat_ recently purchased Maxtor, and > most of us know Maxtor has a horrible reputation for quality. Thus, for > consumer-grade hard drives, you _might_ have a rebadged Maxtor drive that > now says Seagate. Good luck! > > Scott > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > bblisa mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://www.bblisa.org/mailman/listinfo/bblisa > > > _______________________________________________ bblisa mailing list [email protected] http://www.bblisa.org/mailman/listinfo/bblisa
