On Monday 28 February 2005 04:25 pm, 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!
>
> Michael Turcotte
> Information Systems
> City of North Bay
> 200 McIntyre St. E
> PO Box 360
> North Bay, Ontario
> P1B 8H8
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> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://www.cityofnorthbay.ca
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: A. Khattri [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Monday, February 28, 2005 2:08 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] *SLOW* hard drive
>
> On Mon, 28 Feb 2005, Justin Patrin wrote:
> > Already knew about that. It's set to the highest setting already. As I
> > said, it used to work much better but it's been getting slower and
> > slower lately.
>
> If its 3 or 4 years old I would try replacing it.
>
> (And dont buy Maxtor - they suck).
>
I find it odd how success with hardware brands varies from person to person.
Sometimes even from business to business....
Over here, we run Maxtor Diamond Max drives, 7200rpm, 8meg cache, ata 133 in
just about everything. The model numbers escape me (I'm home now), but they
run the range from 120gig to 200gig and... they just keep running and running
and running, ne errors or "slow downs". Yes, they do fail from time to time,
but so does/did everything else we tried. If your bios is smartdrive capable,
turn it on and see if it reports problems.
Cheers and good night.
P.S. Here in New Jersey, where I live, we got a wonderful 8" of snow today.
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