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Martian
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PostPosted: Mon Feb 26, 2007 10:27 pm 
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electrohacker wrote:
it's a maxtor... so I'm not too worried, I've never had a failure with a maxtor

*looks at stack of dead head drives - see's about 5 Maxtors*

In my stack of drives ready for "target practice" I have more Maxtors then any other brand. Western Digital is a close second. Not a single Seagate in the stack. Maybe that is why they are the only brand to offer a 5 year warranty? Of course this isn't exactly a scientific study.

Bottom line is - any disk can fail at any time. If it's not backed up then you better be willing to lose it. (yes, I learned that the hard way)

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Yeah, I wasn't about to touch that since reliability of harddrive brands usually ends up as a quasi-religous issue like vi vs. emacs. ;-)
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 27, 2007 7:37 am 
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I'm Unitarian when it comes to hard drives. [Go Seagate!]

that was wrong on so many levels.

Martian

edit: sorry mods - I'm done now - honest!

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my pile's kinda the opposite...

most dead in order
#1 western digital (with ibm guts)
#2 seagate
#3 off brands
#4 normal wester digital

and no maxtors

I also have a toshiba notebook drive

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Well, I've been almost exclusively a Maxtor fan (even when I worked for Seagate) for IDE/SATA drives. I've had very good luck with them.
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I've received a batch of 15 maxtor 300gig ide drives with 8 doa's. (joys of supplying a military contract i guess) They've lost me.
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