aah ok. I have a western digital drive which I need to replace the case for however sounds good. At 09:49 p.m. 16/04/2009, you wrote: >Hi Shawn: > >No, there is nothing wrong with Maxtor, they are great drives. I would trust >any of my high priority data with them. You'll be safe to go buy one and put >all your most important stuff on it. > >Once you get your data on your new maxtor drive, don't bother backing it up >anywhere else, because it will never die or develop bad sectors. > >shaun everiss wrote: >>Hi all. >>I have just found a maxtore drie going cheap at harvy norman. >>about 170 bucks for 500gb. >>I know there are bad things with these drives but I don't know what. >>are they prone to falier I was origionally going to go with a westerndigital >>or a sigate, both because I have had a wd arc whos case has died and another >>because my friend has a sigate which is real quiet almost non existant. >>I need something that will store data, its going to be a secondary backup, ie >>the drive will get data put on it and then after every 6 months or so I will >>power it on to transfer stuff over. >>I hope to replace the case on my primary western digital and run it into the >>ground. >>I will be a heavy user of either drive though. so they need to last a long >>time. >>OI don't mind if the case power supply or case controler goe but I want >>something that will not easily break with switches, etc and will stand a >>reasonable ammount of abuse and ware. >>Ok so I am not going to drop it and I will try not to take it away with me to >>much if at all, howeverI don't want it to die for no reason just like if I >>pick it off the desk and say forget to switch it off or something screwy >>like that not that will happen however. >>I know the western digital drives will power down when not in use, so >>something that will do that or is so quiet that I won't notice it running. >> >>Did you miss a message? Well, don't. >>http://www.mail-archive.com/talk2%40andrelouis.com/ >>has it for you. Never miss a Talk2 message again. > > >-- >Patrick Perdue (MCP, NCNA) >KE4DYI >Greensboro, NC >website: http://www.pdaudio.net >home: +1(336)698-4417 >Mobile phone and SMS: +1(336)509-5583 >e-mail, Live and AOL messengers: <[email protected]> > > >Did you miss a message? Well, don't. >http://www.mail-archive.com/talk2%40andrelouis.com/ >has it for you. Never miss a Talk2 message again.
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