[Cialug] Maxtor drives

[Dan Hockey]

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 from.
>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-critical
>and I could get more capacity for less $$$ with IDE). I have had two Maxtor
>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 vent?
>
>-Nate
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get a maxtor quickview, its next to silent the kind that's used in pvrs. 
I bought mine about two years ago and its still running 24x7 in my smb 
box.I think http://www.weaknees.com still has them.
-dh