All drive manufacturers have particular models that have had problems. For
instance, you'd have to pay me a damn lot of money to stick anything that
says "Western Digital" in my systems. I've been running Maxtors for years,
and I recently had a 60GB D740X toast itself. First time ever. OTOH, I've
had WDs belly-up left and right. I used to be a big fan of IBM drives,
until the DeathStar 60GXP and 75GXP debacle.
www.storagereview.com is a good place to get comparisons of HDs. And you
can contribute your experiences to the database. The database covers a lot
of drives, but was initially started because of the 60GXP and 75GXPs. IBM
was claiming there was no problem, the rest of the world proved them
horribly wrong.
Personally, I'll stick with Maxtors. I've got 10 Maxtors HDs currently
spinning here (ranging from 27GB 5400 RPM to 80GB 7200 RPM drives), and this
D740X is the first bad one. And Maxtor has (or had) a damn good warranty.
There's been some talk about Maxtor and WD going from 3 year warranties to 1
year. Something about getting too expensive, since HDs rarely stay in
service 3 years (in the real world. Don't start talking here about how
we're all still running drives from the '70's yada yada yada. We're not
a
real cross section of the market).
--John
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From: cctalk-admin(a)classiccmp.org
[mailto:cctalk-admin@classiccmp.org]On
Behalf Of Cameron Kaiser
Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2003 00:34
To: cctalk(a)classiccmp.org
Subject: OT: Maxtor drive goes under
I believe Sellam was cursing at a Maxtor drive a couple
months back, and
now I know why.
The 60GB ATA/133 DiamondStar in my Power Mac 7300 (connected
through a Sonnet
Tempo Trio) this evening made several hiccup-like noises and
the computer
froze up. On the next power cycle, it didn't spin up and just
sat there and
clicked. I suspected stiction (well, I prayed it was
stiction) and tried
reorienting it and a few gentle taps. On the next power
cycle, it didn't even
click anymore and made occasional soft grinding noises, and
now it doesn't
even do that.
So, I'm typing this on my Power Book 1400, which I guess will
be my desktop
system for the time being.
Any suggestions for ways to get it to spin up, one last time?
Anyone know
what happened? I thought it had been a power problem because
it made some
sounds like this a few weeks ago and replacing the power
cable did seem to
cure it, but I'm mystified as to why it would die so fast.
The drive was not
especially hot and it has plenty of ventilation.
I guarantee you my next drive will not be a Maxtor.
Sorry for the OT -- just looking for any desperation
suggestions before I
make a new hard drive platter wall clock.
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