I've had very similar experiences with the Maxtor 250GB SATA drives. We ended up replacing about 32 of them with Seagates I think just to get the a little more peace of mind. Their failure rate was very, very high.
Rich Quoting James Brigman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > How many drives total are you running, and how were you getting 11 250GB > drives of ANY brand to fail? Did you fire the person who built the > system? > > Sounds like heads getting too hot. On the drives, I mean. > > JKB > > On Sat, 2005-08-27 at 13:49 -0400, Ed Hill wrote: > > On Sat, 2005-08-27 at 13:35 -0400, James Brigman wrote: > > <testimonial type="customer"> > > > > We had 11 250GB Maxtors (roughly 50/50 mix of SATA/PATA) die in the last > > year -- all within the 1-yr warranty period. It took many phone calls > > and a bunch of maddening Maxtor mistakes (eg. sent us a box for shipping > > just one drive when we 8 at that point... *sigh*) over a period of ~3 > > months but we did eventually get all the replacements. > > > > </testimonial> > > > > And always read the fine print! If you return drives in a non- > > certified shipping container (even though its already dead), your > > warranty is *void* and you don't get a replacement. > > > > Ed > > > > -- > > Edward H. Hill III, PhD > > office: MIT Dept. of EAPS; Rm 54-1424; 77 Massachusetts Ave. > > Cambridge, MA 02139-4307 > > emails: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > URLs: http://web.mit.edu/eh3/ http://eh3.com/ > > phone: 617-253-0098 > > fax: 617-253-4464 > > > > -- > TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ > TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ > TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc > -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
