Posted by Bill Vermillion on 11/04/02 11:53

In article <svokb2diec35hffafmb2jmn6hsohpj2mt5@4ax.com>,
Terry del Fuego <t_del_fuego@hotmail.com> wrote:
>On Sat, 15 Jul 2006 13:36:49 GMT, Simon Howson
><simonhowson@NOSPAMyahoo.com.au> wrote:

>>I have 3 X 250 GB Seagate drives in my PC, 2 set up in a RAID. I think
>>they are great drives. I've only ever had 1 drive fail, it was a Western
>>Digital brand. But that was a long time ago.

>I've never had a Seagate or Western Digital die on me.

I have on Seagate - never used WDs.

>I've never had a Maxtor last more than a few months.

I've had them running for years - EXCEPT when I had on installed
where the air-flow was poor. It at least failued under warranty.
Now they are in 5.25" carriers with large aluminum heat sinks that
clamp to the flat part of the drive with 3 fans pushing air past
them. At about $20 it was a good investment.

My longest running Maxtor [in the old ESDI days] ran for
7 years and 2 months. And when I had the failure I'm not sure
whether it was the controller [WD] or the drive - as there were
no replacement controllers.

I left it running that long just to see how far I could get by with
it. I set it up for spare sectoring per track and also spare
tracks. After about 6 years the spare sectors/track were running
out on some tracks so it used the spare tracks.

In it's failing mode I was able to retreive about 95% of the date.
I've never had any real problems with Maxtor - but have been
using their server type drives - the ones with the long warranty.

And the Samsung drives also appear to be quite good.

>Not sure what that's going to mean now that Seagate and Maxtor are the
>same company. I hope it means Maxtor will rise to Seagate's quality
>level and not the other way around.

We all seem to have different ideas about what works for each of
us.

Bill


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