[NBLUG/talk] More hard drive problems

[Kyle Rankin]

On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 07:56:37PM -0700, Lincoln Peters wrote:
> On Monday 03 October 2005 06:28 pm, Bob Blick wrote:
> > > However, I ran Maxtor's PowerMax
> >
> > Ahh, I wasn't going to ask. My most recent failure was a Maxtor 250
> > GB drive. It was four months old.
> 
> At least they're really good about replacing the drives when they fail!
> 
> Of course, given this track record, you can see why I'm now using RAID.  I'm 
> thinking that the next time I need a new hard disk that is not a warranty 
> replacement, I'll get one from one of the other major vendors (Seagate, 
> Western Digital, any others worth looking at?) and see how it holds up.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Lincoln Peters
> <sampln at sbcglobal.net>
> 
> Assembly language experience is [important] for the maturity
> and understanding of how computers work that it provides.
> 		-- D. Gries
> 

I'd say Seagate is the main one to consider for a desktop drive just
because they offer a 5yr warranty. If any of the others have bumped up to
that too (I think WD did recently) then I'd say give them a whirl too. Even
if they do fail, at least you have a better chance of getting a
replacement.


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Kyle Rankin
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