5 May
2005
5 May
'05
11:17 p.m.
Joe wrote:
It's not just high density. The newest maxtors DO
suck! So do the latest
Seagates. For the ones of you that didn't know it, Glen Goodwin operates a
computer repair shop and has had LOTS of experience with this. I talked to
him about this and he recommended buying an IBM drive made by Fujitsu. I
bought one and have had NO trouble with it (knock on wood!). All of the
Seagates and Maxtors that I've tried in the last few years have failed
within six months.
Joe
The Pleasanton schoold distict bought a batch of systems with Fujitsu
drives in them They started failing in such large numbers that the
district bought enough spares to replace every one. Each school has
somebody trained to do the swap. Last time I talked to one of their
techs, they had replaced more than half of them and still had several
failures a week.
Failure was typically after several months of use. Because of summer
shut down, many failured right after the warrenty ran out (beginning of
2nd year). Fujitsu won't replace them. The district now has standing
orders to never buy another Fujitsu HD.
I've replaced a lot of drives around the house and in old Apple systems.
But I don't recall ever replacing anything less than 5 years old
regardless of brand. Maybe I'm just lucky, or live right.
Billy