Seagate to Purchase Maxtor

In message <200512212211200240.072AFC9B at 10.0.0.252> "Chuck Guzis" <cclist at sydex.com> wrote: Never used a Kalok then? Those things were nasty... As far as drive failures go, I've had one Maxtor 40GB fail and a Seagate 2GB develop sticktion. Interestingly enough, the Quantum-designed drives (D740X especially) don't seem to be as failure-prone as the newer "pureblood" Maxtor drives. DiamondMax 8 slimlines are truly crap as far as reliability goes. That said, you buy cheap, you get cheap - DM8s are (or at least were) the absolute cheapest drives Maxtor made. I usually pick drives from somewhere in the middle of the capacity range, and aim to pay around ?65-?80 per drive. Notice how most of the people whining "XYZ drives are crap" are the cheapskates that went and bought the ?30 "white box" OEM drives... Cheap is generally synonymous with "crap" in the world of hard drives, IME. On a lighter note, anyone ever had a Conner drive? I've got a CFS425 that I pulled out of a 1996-model Acorn RiscPC600. It's nearly ten years old and it's still fully functional. Now *that's* engineering. Later. -- Phil. | Acorn RiscPC600 SA220 64MB+6GB 100baseT philpem at philpem.me.uk | Athlon64 3200+ A8VDeluxe R2 512MB+100GB http://www.philpem.me.uk/ | Panasonic CF-25 Mk.2 Toughbook ... If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.