[Cialug] Maxtor drives

[Dan Hockey]

Dan Hockey wrote:

> 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
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Heres the full link if anyone is interested....
http://www.weaknees.com/quickview_drives.php
-dh