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RE: 300GB Hard Drives



If you never spin them down maybe that's why they're not broke ;-)
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The effected HD's were 20-40Gb, 7200rpm, so nothing to worry about.
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Pete

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From: Phil Harris [mailto:phil@xxxxxxx]=20
Sent: 24 March 2006 21:38
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] 300GB Hard Drives



> I wouldn't touch Maxtor with a barge pole.

See? ;-)

> I have had over 5 Maxtor failures over the past years.

I've had one Maxtor fail in the last 5 years and that was my own fault...

> Seagate on the other hand have had zero failures and I have=20
> about 5 of them on 24/7.

I've had 8 x 160Gb Maxtors running for the last 5 years and another 8 x
160Gb Maxtors running for the last 3 years (so 16 in total) + 2 x 160Gb
Hitachis for about the last 2 years ... All running 24/7.

(Perhaps that explains why my leccy bill is now =A380 a month?)

> I recently changed to some Western Digital due to some people=20
> suggesting that they were quieter at Storagereview.com.
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> To be honest I have found the Seagates quieter.
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> Seagate gets my vote - then comes Western Digital.
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> Ho yin

:-D

Phil







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