On Friday 31 December 2004 10:58, David Rees wrote: > Dan wolf wrote, On 12/30/2004 2:24 PM: > > Don't buy Maxtors, they are famous for poor quality and unreliability. > > Western Digital, too.
This is not absolutely true. I've owned 4 pcs 40GB maxtors and still own 6 pcs 80GB maxtors. They're just fine after being used 24x7 for 3-4 years. I have them _very_ well cooled though, as I do all of my (server-) drives. My guess is, brands' reliability varies with year / model, or even by batch or by origin (which factory assembled it). So you get lucky, or you don't. In contrast, I also owned 2 WD drives, both 80GB and they both died within the first year (equally well cooled as the rest). Of one of those the replacement was DOA (dead within 2 weeks) and the second replacement is currently in a drawer collecting dust since it has intermittent problems. However, with the newer generation of WD 160GB sata I have no problems whatsoever (as yet). > > Seagates and IBMs are the best. I have a drive around 10 years old > > from IBM and it is still working. I have it hooked up to a server, > > but I'm not sure why I keep it, has hardly any space. Same here. I still have an older 25 GB IBM and it has been on for I think about 5+ years, more or less continuously. A Perfect Drive. (knock, knock) > Hah, IBM sold their drive business to Hitachi after producing the 75GXP > and 60GXP series of drives commonly referred to the DeathStar and making > the "Click of Death" a household phrase. > > I've had more IBM drives go bad on me than all others combined out of > dozens of drives. Sorry to hear that. But I've even used two of those 60GXPs without any problem. But as I said, the fact that those were cooled to ~25 or 30 degrees may have something to do with that... Maarten -- Linux: Because rebooting is for adding hardware. _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
