4 May
2005
4 May
'05
3:44 p.m.
From: "Philip Pemberton" <philpem at dsl.pipex.com>
Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2005 4:48 PM
In message <Pine.LNX.4.20.0505040827140.375-100000
at rosetta.binhost.com>
JP Hindin <jplist at kiwigeek.com> wrote:
I tend to buy Maxtors, I've had failures with them (5-10% failure within
waranty). I've never had any problems replacing the drive in waranty.
The Seagates & WD's I've bough have usually outlasted the waranty but the
waranties were always shorter than Maxtors.
In general I am happy with Maxtors so I stick with them, I don't go through
that many.
Randy
www.s100-manuals.com
I also apply this logic to why the latest 300GB
Maxtor disk lasts six to
eight months before dying, as opposed to any number of <100MB disks that
Never had a problem with Maxtors, aside from a 6-year-old 90845D4 (8.45GB)
DiamondMax that failed earlier this year.
Anyone know if Seagate's offerings are any good? Their Momentus laptop
drives
are interesting, and I've got a 4.5GB U4 and a 6GB Medalist here that work
fine - 1997 and 1998 manufacture dates. I seem to recall a hideously bad
batch of 2GB drives a few years back, 1995/1996 fab dates IIRC.
I've also got an 850MB Maxtor (7850AV), a 420MB Conner (CP420?), a 120MB
Fujitsu and an 80MB IBM here that just won't die...
Later.
--
Phil. | Acorn Risc PC600 Mk3, SA202, 64MB,
6GB,
philpem at philpem.me.uk | ViewFinder, 10BaseT Ethernet,
2-slice,
http://www.philpem.me.uk/ | 48xCD, ARCINv6c IDE, SCSI
... BS (bee ess): n. An uninformed statement.