Re: [expert] Western digital drives don't work?/maximum capacity

[silkythreads]

I have 2 Maxtor's and 1 Seagate....   All work "like a champ" !   No problem with any of them !   But... I also have a couple of computers with   WD drives in them..... no problems to speak   of !  What seems to be their "bane"?   At YA later !!!!! Donna   ----- Original Message ----- From: James Sparenberg To: Expert List Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 3:15 AM Subject: Re: [expert] Western digital drives don't work?/maximum capacity On Tue, 2002-12-17 at 11:04, Todd Lyons wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Tom Brinkman wrote on Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 10:29:15PM +0000 : > > > >    Bottom line is hardware is a moving target, always has been. > > Unfortunately, specially with other than with M$, it's a downhill > > slide towards Junkyard Wars. Maxtor seems to be the safest bet right > > What is amazing to me is that nobody has had anything to say (positive > or negative) about: > 1) IBM drives Never had one. > 2) Seagate drives I've got 3 of them that are almost 7 years old...(Make nice Firewall HDD's) I'm using Seagate and Maxtor (Never would have believed I would say this, about Maxtor.) throughout our company systems... Less than 1% of them got RMA'd so I was really happy with that.  Oh and my underwater HDD's were all seagates.... they survived 100% but this is a test I'd never recommend.  > > I have my own personal experiences with them, but am curious what > others have seen. > > Blue skies... Todd > - -- >            MandrakeSoft USA   http://www.mandrakesoft.com >           cat /boot/vmlinuz > /dev/dsp  #for great justice >    Cooker Version mandrake-release-9.1-0.1mdk Kernel 2.4.20-2mdk > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQE9/3VSlp7v05cW2woRAn2iAJ0QHljt2GlH77JuqXQCouJM61BwowCeOiyQ > wqWblDUKE1e/JpDW/EKx9Mc= > =HWLg > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > ---- > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com