22 Dec
2005
22 Dec
'05
4:57 a.m.
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.
Maxtor Diamond 9 Plus is the same crap. Not expensive, becomes VERY hot for a desktop
drive
and is sooo slow....
Died after a year....
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.
Conner engineered good drives but unfortunately, the CFS850A and the CFS1275A series were
horrible.
LOTS of drives from these series died.... if I'd get one, I'd perform a backup as
fast as I could.
Regards,
Pierre
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