[Cialug] Maxtor drives

[Darcy Baston]

Bryan, remember the Quantum 52MB drives from the late 80s? Buddy of mine had one of those in his Amiga 2000, and 10+ years later it still worked like a champ.

I've had good experiences with Toshiba and Seagate, and poor ones with Maxtor and WD (having worked in a computer store for a while). I had a 2.5" 80MB Seagate for more than 5 years that worked great, and then a 2.5" Toshiba 800MB for about 7 years. Never a problem with either.

My iMac 400mhz DV SE (2000) came with a 13GB Fujitsu that continues to work well today.

A photographer pal of mine has some 120MB IBM micro drives in his professional high end digital SLR cameras that have worked more than 5 years without a hiccup.

I recently purchased an external USB 2.0 LaCie 160GB drive. I haven't checked out its specs yet to see who's the media maker, but we'll see how it fares in the long run.

Darcy

On Tuesday, May 17, 2005, at 10:59AM, Bryan Baker <ka_klick@mac.com> wrote:

>Back on topic, I've had good luck w/ Maxtors, and back in the day 
>Quantums (yes, bigfoot drives suck, but some of their higher end were 
>really nice).
>I avoid WD like the plague.
>Lately I've been buying Seagate since they started the 5 yr. warranty 
>and they've worked out to be on nice sales when I needed one. I've got 
>to say they've been very nice. Funny, a couple years ago I thought the 
>company was dead.