On Tuesday December 17 2002 01:04 pm, Todd Lyons wrote:
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> 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
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> What is amazing to me is that nobody has had anything to say
> (positive or negative) about:
> 1) IBM drives
> 2) Seagate drives
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> I have my own personal experiences with them, but am curious what
> others have seen.
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> Blue skies... Todd
I had two 7200 rpm IBM Deskstars. I always run 24/7, but last
April I was out of town for a week and shut down. When I got back,
the 30 gig IBM, with all my Linux on it, wouldn't spin up. 8 months
old, mechanical failure. In a pinch, I replaced it with a Maxtor
bought locally, rather than wait on RMA. Then a few months ago the
remaining 30g IBM started actin up. 14 months old. I replaced it with
a Maxtor 80g before the IBM had a chance to totally fail. Never did
bother to RMA either IBM. BTW, both IBM's were replacements for old
and slow WD's.
The above was the first time I've had any HDD problems in over 12
years. I've never had any Seagates. Gettin back to 'downhill slide',
most HDD vendors recently dropped from 3 yr, to 1 year warranties.
Not exactly a confidence builder. Both Maxtor's I've got now still
have 3 yrs warranty. We'll just haft'a see how long the last.
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Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas
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