Re: Maxtor or IBM/Hitachi

[Herbie <technowombat@yahoo.com>]

You don't say what Model # to avoid.

I had several servers (20-30) with IBM Deskstar drives in 20/30/40GB 
sizes, almost all of them failed within a 2 year period, so I would advise 
staying away from them too. IBM drives are now owned by Hitachi FYI.

h.

On Mon, 4 Apr 2005, Danny Sauer wrote:

> Well, I haven't posted anything for a while, so I figured I'd pass this
> along.
>
> Don't buy Maxtor drives.  I've bought about 25 over the last 2 years.  I can
> count on one hand the drives that have not been replaced, while it takes 2
> hands to count those that have been replaced twice.  My most recent drive
> was apparently "originally sold in Germany" or "manufactured (not sold,
> manufactured) during the 6 month period where they only had a 1-year
> warranty" - depending on which "helpful" rep you speak to.  Either way,
> that's just one more Maxtor that's being discarded rather than reinstalled,
> and is being replaced with a Seagate.
>
> I promised myself that I'd cost them more in lost sales than the value of
> the drive that they refuse to replace.  Help me reach my goal by not buying
> Maxtor next time you're in the market for a hard drive.
>
> BTW, if anyone wants a free pit bull that's ill behaved and barks a lot, my
> neighbor leaves his outside 24x7 and is typically gone during the day.
> It's not well tied up, since it ends up running free about once a week.
>
> --Danny, also aggravated that he has to turn of write caching for Reiser to
> be stable on his new 3Ware RAID card :(
>
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