RE: 300GB Hard Drives

["Jim Andrews" <jim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Not in my case.

I've had Maxtor drives fail within a couple of months so it's based on my
(and
others) objective experience. Thanks to the other poster who referred to a
grease problem, that does explain a lot!

Also I tend to swap the drives every couple of years of machines that are
running on a daily basis or 24/7, as insurance against failure. When your
eggs
are in one basket (albeit backed up), it pays to be safe!



Jim

-----Original Message-----
From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx]On Behalf Of
Mal Lansell
Sent: 24 March 2006 23:38
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] 300GB Hard Drives


He he - I reckon most people's preference is basically whatever they
currently have, and the "wouldn't touch it with a barge pole" is
whatever they used to have.  To put it another way, if you've owned PCs
for enough years, you will have had a hard drive fail.  The unfortunate
manufacturer then goes in the "barge pole" category and you try
another
make.

Personally I wouldn't use Western Digital, but when I recall that the
only failure of one of their drives was one that was posted across the
Atlantic twice, maybe I'm being a bit harsh!

Mal



Phil Harris wrote:

>>I wouldn't touch Maxtor with a barge pole.
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>>I have had over 5 Maxtor failures over the past years.
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>I've had one Maxtor fail in the last 5 years and that was my own
fault...
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>>Seagate on the other hand have had zero failures and I have
>>about 5 of them on 24/7.
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>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.
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>(Perhaps that explains why my leccy bill is now £80 a month?)
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>>I recently changed to some Western Digital due to some people
>>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
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>:-D
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>Phil
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