On Sat, 2007-05-19 at 10:12 -1000, marbux wrote: > On 5/19/07, roger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >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. > > > > Could be. I haven't had my first >=120GB drive all that long. :-) > > Best regards, > > Marbux
btw, my 120GB WD are "dropping like flies". :-/ Guess I could include a "You Have Been Warned" label on my emails concerning this... lol -- Roger http://www.eskimo.com/~roger/index.html Key fingerprint = 8977 A252 2623 F567 70CD 1261 640F C963 1005 1D61 Sat May 19 13:32:02 PDT 2007 _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list euglug@euglug.org http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
