On Fri, 2007-05-18 at 16:34 -1000, marbux wrote: > I've had a bad attitude about Seagate quality since the days of DR DOS > and 4DOS. But I haven't given them another chance since then. I have > had no problems with Maxtor's drives whatsoever. The only reason I > ever replaced them was the need for higher capacity and speed. IIRC, > what was my first Maxtor is still running on my step-daughter's > formerly Windows 98 machine (now MEPIS). I was concerned when Seagate > absorbed Maxtor a month or two back. But maybe I should read that as > them agreeing with you that Seagate's quality is acceptable these > days. :-)
>From what I understood for the past 5 years, Maxtor was about the same as WD in quality... ie. "You get what you pay for." I've got approx 5 WD drives around here, 3 have been kicking for the past 5 years (10,20,40GB). Seems the like the 5-6 year old drives were really good, but then, any drive purchased recently since 4 years ago, just drop like flies (>=120GB). Think it's a multitude of factors including heat, and cheap parts. To include an engineering defect not being able to take *any* abuse. <shrugs> -- Roger http://www.eskimo.com/~roger/index.html Key fingerprint = 8977 A252 2623 F567 70CD 1261 640F C963 1005 1D61 Sat May 19 10:43:29 PDT 2007 _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list euglug@euglug.org http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
