Civileme wrote:
>
> "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.
I have had four Maxtor 10 gig 7200 rpm drives fail in the last year.
Jeanette
