On Thursday 19 June 2003 13:15, you wrote: > On Thursday 19 Jun 2003 5:23 pm, Crak600 - Michael wrote: > > On Thursday 19 June 2003 12:03 pm, Curt Tresenriter wrote: > > > On Thu, 19 Jun 2003 11:35:15 -0400 > > > > > > JoeHill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >this worries me, I here a lot of Maxtor's failing on this > > > > list... > > > > > > I've noticed that too..think I've seen it on other lists also. > > > Cust serv said "This drive's proven to be very solid"... > > > > wow, that hearing that makes me glad i didn't order Maxtor drives. > > I went with WD and am waiting for a 2nd one right now. has anyone > > heard anything bad about the WD drives? my current one was new > > when installed and has been in the computer for 2-3 months with no > > problems so far. Thanks. > > Yup - you should hear what some people say about WD. I've come to the > conclusion that there is no such thing as a good hard-drive > manufacturer. There are scare stories about all of them. So, you > have to buy something..... > > Anne
In my experience working with a wide range of hardware, Maxtor is just about the bottom of the barrel. Seagate (Barracuda IV is excellent) is the top of the line for IDE drives, and WD isn't bad at all. When all you go by is the complaints you hear, everything will sound relatively equal, but working with a large quantity and a wide range of drives you start to see distinct tiers in quality, with Maxtor coming out on bottom of virtually any head-to-head comparison. I had a frequent flier that used to get confused about Maxtor vs. Matrox, one being a terrible hard drive manufacturer and the other being an exceptional (non-3d) graphics card manufacturer. He would come in with these new hard drives to be installed and I would have to re-explain every time that they had nothing to do with one another. Maxtor bad, Matrox good. Isaac ---------------------------------------- Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; name="message.footer" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: ----------------------------------------
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