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! -- -- Patrick Perdue (MCP, CNA) KE4DYI Greensboro, NC website: http://www.pdaudio.net home: +1(828)221-2971 Mobile phone and SMS: +1(336)509-5583 e-mail and .net messenger: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> skype: Borris -------------------- For anything related to the yamaha motif line of keyboards and modules, subscribe to the motif-help mailing list by sending a blank message to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This message originally sent in reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Tuesday, June 20, 2006 at 5:04 AM EST.
