I consider myself very very lucky in a sense as I have a maxtor dedicated
80GB external harddrive which has worked i think for the past 2 years and it
still chugs along. I had one bad-sector on it once which crashed the whole
drive and the same with my WD but that was due to my computer injecting
random things into both of the drives. However, I have found that WD is a
very reliable company and I really should try some Seagate. I haven't
actually touched them before, but from what you have said Patrick, they are
a really good buy and worth looking at. Next year I need to go and get a
320GB harddrive as that is going to be a mirror drive to which my two
externals (Maxtor (80GB) and WD (200GB) and other things will be backed up
onto. I never had a backup and I really should get one soon!
- Original Message -
From: Patrick Perdue [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: talk2 talk2@AndreLouis.COM
Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2006 7:14 PM
Subject: Re: The Talk2 List USB Storage Devices
On 6/20/2006, 4:59:34 AM EDT, Hayden wrote:
You should go and get a nice little WD(200GB) and a nice little caddie.
Or a seagate! Yay seagate!
I've had problems with every last drive manufacturer, but I've had the
least amount of problems with seagate, or at least the newer drives.
They really did used to be crap, but now they aren't anymore.
Also, you get a 5-year manufacturer's warranty with any new Seagate
drive you get. Mind you, WD gives you a 3-year one, which I've had to
use on a few occasions. I'm not even sure if Maxtor gives you a
warranty. All the Maxtor drives I've had that died had to be returned
through mwave, while the WD drives were sent and returned from WD
themselves.
It seems that Seagate and Maxtor/x-quantom have switched places in the
crap department.
It used to be that Seagate drives were noisy, and would die if you even
thought about blowing on them, especially around the 1 to 8 GB era.
Quantom drives used to be rather good and reliable. I've got a 10 GB
quantom fireball that I got in 1998, and it's still working just fine --
no bad sectors or anything like that.
I've even got a couple of 260 MB Quantom drives from the early 90's
which both work fine as well.
But then, Quantom decided to make the Bigfoot, which was a really bad
idea. Then they were bought by Maxtor, which was a worse idea!!! Cringe!
They were always the first to come out with big drives. 1998 saw the
Maxtor 30 GB drives, which were a really nice flop at the time, as they
kept dying, and dying, and dying. I have friends that could tell you all
kinds of horror stories about the earliest 30 and 40 GB drives in a
server environment...
You guys all know by now all the fun I've had with Maxtor, and some
other people's fun with Maxtor as well.
For those of you who still have working maxtor drives (including myself,
unfortunately), consider yourselves lucky!
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