"Good Luck" is a relative term. Western Digital has a pretty neat Service
Dept too. Gateway will take things back and send you a new one when they
aren't obligated to.
I would rather have something that didn't break in the first place. In the
midst of this, I have had ONE DOA from WD, which was promptly replaced with
the next larger size, and ONE 6 year old IBM disk die. The two Maxtors were
out of Four.
But that is all off-topic. I am not concerned so much with reliability per
se which changes depending on the weather and wind direction, but with what
works well for installing and running linux-mandrake and what does not. On
that score, Maxtors are OK. I have never gotten one to run UDMA in Linux,
but that is just because I haven't tried.
Civileme
Bob Jackson wrote:
> I've personally had real good luck with them. The few that come
> back to the shop with problems have given me experience with
> Maxtors return policy. I have to call for an RMA, never been
> turned down. We usually get the replacement in 2 - 3 days, no
> quibbiling. After the diceing and dancing I've had to do with
> some other mfrs (Seagate for one) I'm quite pleased with them.
>
> YMMV
>
> Bob J.
