[Cialug] Maxtor drives

[Major Stubble]

For a while, I was sticking with them because I they were always nice
enough to send me replacement drives that were greater in capacity to
the original, dead drive.  I owned one 8 GB drive about 6 years ago.=20
It died with only a few months left on the warranty.  I got a 20 GB
drive replacement.  That one died (do to my own faults, not Maxtor's -
I dropped it on a cement floor) after about two years, and was
replaced with a 40 GB.  I still have that drive in an SMB server.

I used to stick with Western Digital drives, but have been burned by
them ever since they passed the 36 GB size.  Now a days, I only
purchase Seagate drives because of the 5 year warranty.  Plus, I have
been extremely happy with their SATA performance.  To top all that
off, Seagate drives run quieter than my Wester Digitals.

-Nick

On 5/16/05, Dave J. Hala Jr. <dave@58ghz.net> wrote:
> I bought three maxtor drives 18 month ago.  All three failed with in a
> year. (all in differant machines) Of the three that were replaced under
> warranty, one of the replacements failed.
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> Never again.
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> On Mon, 2005-05-16 at 12:03, Nathan C. Smith wrote:
> > Does anyone else have the same disdain for the Maxtor brand that I do? =
 I
> > will never knowingly purchase a drive marked Maxtor.
> >
> > We have an inexpensive Compaq DL320 I use to store and image drives fro=
m.
> > Unbelievably, it came with Maxtor IDE drives in it.  (It was from over =
three
> > years ago - I chose IDE over SCSI at the time because it was non-critic=
al
> > and I could get more capacity for less $$$ with IDE). I have had two Ma=
xtor
> > drives fail in the unit over the past two years.  I have had other poor
> > experiences with Maxtor at home as well - from before I knew better.
> >
> > Anyone have anything good to say about Maxtor?  Anyone else care to ven=
t?
> >
> > -Nate
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