On Mon, 28 Feb 2005, Mike Turcotte wrote: > I had a 40 GB Maxtor ATA drive in my server running Slack for a while, > then Gentoo. I had a similar problem with the drive getting slower and > slower all the time. Now it will read at less that 5MB / Sec, sometimes > under 1 with only 5% of the drive used. Tried on multiple machines and > confirmed that UDMA was enabled. I agree... Don't buy Maxtor!
We've had a few of them fail (less than a year old so under warranty but still). In contrast, I have a Seagate in another server that's worked flawlessly for 4 years (and Seagate's have a 5 year warranty). So its worth paying a bit more to get quality. -- A. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
