At 03:35 PM 21/02/2006, Winterlight wrote:
At 09:51 AM 2/21/2006, you wrote:
About a year ago a 4 month old WD 2000JB went bad on me so while I
was waiting for a replacement drive I bought one of the then new
Maxtor 250 gig drives with 16 megs of cache. I thought that was
very cool to have double the cache! Anyway, I got my WD back and
it's been running fine ever since but now the Maxtor has gone bad.
The likelihood of having two top end drives go bad on you like that,
within the time frames you specified, is extremely unlikely. I would
be asking why, before I would trust that machine with my data again.
You raise a good point. But I've seen a lot of problems with Maxtors
(and the company ran into financial difficulty due to it's quality
problems) so it may be simply bad luck on the WD and normal operation
on the Maxtor.
T
