22 Dec
2005
22 Dec
'05
8:53 a.m.
On 12/22/05, Philip Pemberton <philpem at dsl.pipex.com> wrote:
In message <200512212211200240.072AFC9B at
10.0.0.252>
"Chuck Guzis" <cclist at sydex.com> wrote:
My circa 1985 First Class Peripherals Sider 10 Meg drive still works
like a champ. Cost me ~ $700. Not sure who manufactured the drive
itself - I'll have to open it up and take a look when I get home
tonight.
I swore off Maxtor earler this year after having one of those
DiamondMax junkers go south on me. And it's replacement. And the RMA
Maxtor sent me... Good gods, those things get hot...
- Mike
Atasi...the list is endless. The only drive I
really, really didn't like
was JTS.
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
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