I am a Maxtor fan- but that experience is limited to my 3 computers at home.
On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 10:09:34 -0400, Mark J. Small <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On December 14, 2004 09:53 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I just had my second Western Digital Special Edition 200 GB drive die on > > me. Since I'm using an ASUS Pundit, I figured heat was the culprit, so the > > second drive had a dual-fan cooler on it. No such luck. After about three > > months of use, performance suddenly degrades, and the journals begin to > > corrupt. A few days later, I/O errors crop up, and the drive is pretty > > much useless. > > > > Are these drives just not up to the stress of a PVR? I'm interested in > > hearing what kind of drives people have had good luck with, as I've about > > had it with these. I'll get my third on warranty, but It won't be going > > back into a myth box. > > > > Thanks, > > > > Paul > > _______________________________________________ > > mythtv-users mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > > As a VERY small dealer, I haven't been very happy with the quality of WD > drives in the last few years. I've seen too many come back dead, and many > more come back very noisy. These are mostly 20 and 40 GB BB or EB drives. > I've switched to using Samsung as much as possible. I haven't hit a bad one > yet. Of course, its only been a year since I started using them, and the > next two years may teach me otherwise. > > Mark > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > -- Jesse Perkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://jperkins.homeip.net
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