Greg Freemyer wrote:
> On 2/23/07, Doug McGarrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> On Friday 23 February 2007 01:48, John Andersen wrote:
>> > On Thursday 22 February 2007, Kai Ponte wrote:
>> > > I just bought some maxtor 320 GB thingy at fry's. I have no idea
>> what
>> > > warranty it has.
>> >
>> > Maxtor is Seagate's "Crap" line IMHO. I don't think
>> > the maxtor label carries 5 years warranty.
>> >
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>> > _____________________________________
>> > John Andersen
>> I wish I knew how many Maxtor drives I've thrown out, or seen thrown
>> out!
>> And I wasn't even in IT! I've had fairly decent luck with IBM
>> drives, altho
>> they're not made by IBM anymore--one of the Japanese companies makes
>> them--I forget who. Anyway, treat your Maxtor tenderly. From what I've
>> read--most recently here, BTW--heat is your worst enemy, so one of these
>> drive-cooler fans that mounts right under the drive might be worth
>> buying.
>
> IBM Laptop drives are now Hitachi. Not sure about normal size drives.
>
> RE: Heat
> The Google white paper says they looked for a correlation between
> failure and heat. To their surprise they could not find one.
>
> Greg
Heat is an issue for hard drives. I use removal hard drives and the housing
has an internal fan. The fan stopped. I didn't know it and I went through
two harddrives very quickly before replacing the fan. Drives do well within
certain temperature limits but the MTBF goes down quickly when one
exceeds the specifications as I see it.
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