[Cialug] Maxtor drives
Jon Clemons
cialug@cialug.org
Mon, 16 May 2005 14:51:07 -0500
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Personally I use Western Digital over Maxtor. I buy Western Digital =
drives with 3 yr warranty
and they have 8mb cache on those drives. The lower the cache the sooner =
they seem to fail
across most manufacturers drives.=20
----- Original Message -----=20
From: John.Lengeling@radisys.com=20
To: cialug@cialug.org=20
Sent: Monday, May 16, 2005 2:15 PM
Subject: Re: [Cialug] Maxtor drives
Maxtor and Western Digital drives are pretty much consumer grade =
drives... They don't have the same duty cycle/MTBF as commercial/server =
class drives. They have anywhere from 1-3 year warrantees whereas =
Seagate/IBM have 3-5 year. I don't like either, but prefer Maxtor when =
compared to Western Digital. YMMV based on a particular model too.=20
I would recommend Seagate or IBMs. And even Seagate/IBM have lower =
end drives geared to consumers which I wouldn't purchase.=20
You don't see RAID manufacturers using Maxtor or Western =
Digital...wonder why?=20
johnl
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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Personally I use Western Digital over =
Maxtor. I buy=20
Western Digital drives with 3 yr warranty</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>and they have 8mb cache on those =
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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>across most manufacturers drives. =
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drives</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV><BR><FONT face=3Dsans-serif size=3D2>Maxtor and Western =
Digital=20
drives are pretty much consumer grade drives... They don't have =
the same=20
duty cycle/MTBF as commercial/server class drives. They have =
anywhere=20
from 1-3 year warrantees whereas Seagate/IBM have 3-5 year. I =
don't like=20
either, but prefer Maxtor when compared to Western Digital. YMMV =
based=20
on a particular model too.</FONT> <BR><BR><FONT face=3Dsans-serif =
size=3D2>I would=20
recommend Seagate or IBMs. And even Seagate/IBM have lower end =
drives=20
geared to consumers which I wouldn't purchase.</FONT> <BR><BR><FONT=20
face=3Dsans-serif size=3D2>You don't see RAID manufacturers using =
Maxtor or=20
Western Digital...wonder why?</FONT> <BR><BR><FONT face=3Dsans-serif=20
size=3D2>johnl</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>
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