Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: ide drive dying? | From | Joachim Breuer <> | Date | Mon, 09 Sep 2002 14:26:23 +0200 |
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Just for the sake of the argument...
jbradford@dial.pipex.com writes:
>> BTW >> I had a double disk crash (same symptoms as in this thread) in a >> school's RAID5 with four Fujitsu MPG3204AT-EF (the ones with >> gel-lager, silent and reliable we hoped) last week... The shop for >> which I work from time to time got 71 disks of this type back (sold >> over the last 1.5 years). We switched to them after the "IBM" >> disaster. Maybe a "misdecision" ;-) What shall we sell safely, >> now...? MAXTOR? > > I have *never* lost data to a Maxtor disk. I have had IBM, Fujitsu, > Western Digital, and DEC drives all fail on me before. > > It's dissapointing that Maxtor are reducing their warranty from 3 > years to 1 year, but on the other hand, I've never needed it at all.
And with good reason, it seems (the warranty reduction) - my Maxtor 6L060J3 (or whatever, the 7200rpm 60G ATA-100) died after approx. 8 weeks (bad sectors); warranty replacement; replacement dies after approx. 16 weeks (bad sectors); I'm now on the 2nd replacement. Oh joy.
I have to say that I have a few more (~ 5) Maxtor drives running which didn't cause any trouble... so far.
Yes, I did switch to Maxtor because of excessive outages of IBM drives (DeathStar), why do you ask?
So long, Joe
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