On Mon, 28 Feb 2005, Jerry McBride wrote: > I find it odd how success with hardware brands varies from person to person. > Sometimes even from business to business.... > > Over here, we run Maxtor Diamond Max drives, 7200rpm, 8meg cache, ata 133 in > just about everything. The model numbers escape me (I'm home now), but they > run the range from 120gig to 200gig and... they just keep running and running > and running, ne errors or "slow downs". Yes, they do fail from time to time, > but so does/did everything else we tried. If your bios is smartdrive capable, > turn it on and see if it reports problems.
The 5 year warranty that you get with Seagates says a lot about the confidence they have in their manufacturing and testing processes. Maxtor in comparison have a one year warranty. I manage servers for a living (so perhaps the drives get a "bit" more usage than your average user) and we have recently adopted a Seagate-only policy because of the weakness of the Maxtor drives in this environment. -- A. -- [email protected] mailing list
