----- Original Message ----- From: "Thane Sherrington (S)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "The Hardware List" <hardware@hardwaregroup.com> Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2006 6:33 AM Subject: Re: [H] Hardrive failure..
I replaced ten 40 and 80 GB Maxtors in one week. They are that bad, unfortunately. Of the drives I replace, at least 90% are Maxtors. Dell is/was a big Maxtor user and it shows here.
Maxtor did not buy Quantum for the materials. The bought Quantum for the massive customer base, namely many name brand computer manufacturers. Now the bottom of the barrel for hard drives has risen one inch, from Quantum to Maxtor. Yet the masses still love those name brand computers filled with Maxtors (unless they find a cheaper hard drive). The same principle applies to the other components. They buy the cheapest ones offered with one stipulation, of course. 90% or better of any component installed in a name brand computer is expected to live through the 1 year warranty. If you believe this and somebody asks you if you are saying name brand manufacturers have no principles you can disagree. They have one strong principle. Most computers they build and sell are expected to clear warranty before they fall apart.
Chuck
