Re: [gentoo-user] 300GB HD
Teresa and Dale wrote: It is really rare that I have a drive to go out. Maybe I'm just lucky. shrugs I do have a few drives that are over a decade old and some a couple decades old. I have owned dozens of drives over the years. The only reliable brands that I have used are Western Digital, IBM and Seagate. I have tried Maxtor three separate times. Twice the drive failed withing three months, and in both cases, the receipt magically disappeared with the box that *somebody* threw out. The last drive in just over one year (not willing to mail it in for the return of $40 ... lots of important data that needs cleansing first). I swear to GOD that I will NEVER buy another Maxtor! :-) Seagates are awesome ... 5 year warrantee to boot! Tom Veldhouse -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] 300GB HD
Jerry McBride wrote: On Monday 22 May 2006 17:18, Samuel Baldwin wrote: I'm planning on buying a 300GB HD from maxtor for my next primary HD. It's a Maxtor DiamondMax 10 300GB 3.5 IDE Ultra ATA133 Hard Drive - OEM Two maxtors have died on me, and a lot more on my friends. I'd go with WD or Seagate. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] 300GB HD
On Monday 22 May 2006 23:18, Samuel Baldwin wrote: I'm planning on buying a 300GB HD from maxtor for my next primary HD. It's a Maxtor DiamondMax 10 300GB 3.5 IDE Ultra ATA133 Hard Drive - OEM well, Seagate has bought maxtor (is buying maxtor at the moment) - so they will be gone in a short while. And maxtor had some quality issues in the not -so-distant-past. I am not sure, if that are points for buying Maxtor -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] 300GB HD
On May 23, 2006, at 7:56 AM, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Monday 22 May 2006 23:18, Samuel Baldwin wrote: I'm planning on buying a 300GB HD from maxtor for my next primary HD. It's a Maxtor DiamondMax 10 300GB 3.5 IDE Ultra ATA133 Hard Drive - OEM well, Seagate has bought maxtor (is buying maxtor at the moment) - so they will be gone in a short while. And maxtor had some quality issues in the not -so-distant-past. I am not sure, if that are points for buying Maxtor All companies have problems. I have had lots of issues with WD disks (SATA) about 2 years ago that I had to RMA. Also, there are problems with some WD SATA compatibility. I just had to RMA a brand new out of the box Seagate SATA last month. It was DOA. I had some Fujitsu SCSI disks I had to RMA a few years ago. I can't remember any Maxtor disks failing, though there is one disk I had to RMA a year or so ago and I cannot remember the make -- it could have been Maxtor. I have not bought Maxtor in the last 2 years though. Recently, based on a bunch of reviews of Hitachi disks, and some negatives on Seagate performance (in a particular realm) I have been buying Hitachi, and up to recently Seagate, based on their longer warranty. Remember, all makers have issues and I am sure you can find people to sing the praises as well as damn any of the disk makers. Chad --- Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC Your Web App and Email hosting provider chad at shire.net -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] 300GB HD
On May 23, 2006, at 9:13 AM, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: I can't remember any Maxtor disks failing, though there is one disk I had to RMA a year or so ago and I cannot remember the make -- it could have been Maxtor. Actually, I went and looked it up. It was a WD drive (yet another). Almost exactly 1 year ago it was sent back. Chad --- Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC Your Web App and Email hosting provider chad at shire.net -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] 300GB HD
Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote:
On May 23, 2006, at 9:13 AM, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote:
I can't remember any Maxtor disks failing, though there is one disk
I had to RMA a year or so ago and I cannot remember the make -- it
could have been Maxtor.
Actually, I went and looked it up. It was a WD drive (yet another).
Almost exactly 1 year ago it was sent back.
Chad
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Hm, I have one of each. The Maxtor is faster since it has more
cache. Sound wise I can't tell them apart.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] / # hdparm -i /dev/hda
/dev/hda:
Model=Maxtor 6Y080P0, FwRev=YAR41BW0, SerialNo=Y22J9KXE
Config={ Fixed }
RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=57
BuffType=DualPortCache, BuffSize=7936kB, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=16
CurCHS=4047/16/255, CurSects=16511760, LBA=yes, LBAsects=160086528
IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:120,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120}
PIO modes: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4
DMA modes: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2
UDMA modes: udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 udma4 udma5 *udma6
AdvancedPM=yes: disabled (255) WriteCache=enabled
Drive conforms to: (null): ATA/ATAPI-1 ATA/ATAPI-2 ATA/ATAPI-3
ATA/ATAPI-4 ATA/ATAPI-5 ATA/ATAPI-6 ATA/ATAPI-7
* signifies the current active mode
[EMAIL PROTECTED] / # hdparm -i /dev/hdb
/dev/hdb:
Model=WDC WD800BB-00DKA0, FwRev=77.07W77, SerialNo=WD-WCAHL2497094
Config={ HardSect NotMFM HdSw15uSec SpinMotCtl Fixed DTR5Mbs
FmtGapReq }
RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=57600, SectSize=600, ECCbytes=74
BuffType=DualPortCache, BuffSize=2048kB, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=16
CurCHS=16383/16/63, CurSects=16514064, LBA=yes, LBAsects=156301488
IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:120,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120}
PIO modes: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4
DMA modes: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2
UDMA modes: udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 udma4 *udma5
AdvancedPM=no WriteCache=enabled
Drive conforms to: Unspecified: ATA/ATAPI-1 ATA/ATAPI-2 ATA/ATAPI-3
ATA/ATAPI-4 ATA/ATAPI-5 ATA/ATAPI-6
* signifies the current active mode
[EMAIL PROTECTED] / #
It is really rare that I have a drive to go out. Maybe I'm just lucky.
shrugs I do have a few drives that are over a decade old and some a
couple decades old.
Dale
:-)
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Re: [gentoo-user] 300GB HD
Well, I heard good things and bad things about Maxtor. Mainly bad.If anyone can show me a good WD or Seagate drive for a similar price and the same amount of space, please, do so :) .-- Samuel300GB Hardrive from Newegg.com: $11532 HD LCD TV/PC Monitor: $1, 199.992GB of RAM: $160GNU/Linux Operating System: Priceless
Re: [gentoo-user] 300GB HD
On May 23, 2006, at 2:27 PM, Samuel Baldwin wrote:Well, I heard good things and bad things about Maxtor. Mainly bad.If anyone can show me a good WD or Seagate drive for a similar price and the same amount of space, please, do so :) .Zipzoomfly.com has the seagate IDE 7200RPM Barracuda 7200.8 with 8mb cache for $111, free shipping in USA and the 7200.9 with 16mb of cache for $114.99, again free shippingThey have the Samsung HD300LD with 8mb cache for 106 and free shippingThe SATA versions are Seagate 7200.8 8mb cache for $122.55 free shipping Seagate 7200.9 16mb cache for $115 free shippingnewegg.com probably has a similar range available at similar pricesChad-- Samuel300GB Hardrive from Newegg.com: $11532" HD LCD TV/PC Monitor: $1, 199.992GB of RAM: $160GNU/Linux Operating System: Priceless ---Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLCYour Web App and Email hosting providerchad at shire.net
Re: [gentoo-user] 300GB HD
On Tuesday 23 May 2006 3:27 pm, Samuel Baldwin wrote: If anyone can show me a good WD or Seagate drive for a similar price and the same amount of space, please, do so :) . http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=1901400CatId=134 -jm -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] 300GB HD
300GB as a main hdd isnt a good idea, if the drive dies you lose all the data and your install. pickup a nice 60GB one at wallmart or something and use the 300 for data or make partitions so you wont lose everything, buit the 300GB should work fine in gentoo - Original Message - From: Samuel Baldwin To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Sent: Monday, May 22, 2006 5:18 PM Subject: [gentoo-user] 300GB HD I'm planning on buying a 300GB HD from maxtor for my next primary HD.It's a "Maxtor DiamondMax 10 300GB 3.5" IDE Ultra ATA133 Hard Drive - OEM"(http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822140166)Anyways, I was wondering if I would run into any problems with a 300GB HD, and if this particular one would give me problems.It's a 250V (I think) Power supply and I've already got an Nvidia GeForce 6200 GT in there, so I'm also afraid of it being too much for my computer to handle. It would be my only HD in the machine though. I'm not sure if I should shoot for a smaller drive. I _need_ these 300GB's though. It takes me about 2 days to fill up a 40GB HD with everything, and that's just single-booting. I am content with switching to a smaller drive though if it is impossible to run this certain HD. (Also, if anyone else knows any better deals for a similar/better HD, please, tell me).That's all for now-- Thanks -- Samuel (shardz)300GB Hardrive from Newegg.com: $11532" HD LCD TV/PC Monitor: $1, 199.992GB of RAM: $160GNU/Linux Operating System: Priceless
Re: [gentoo-user] 300GB HD
On Monday 22 May 2006 17:18, Samuel Baldwin wrote: I'm planning on buying a 300GB HD from maxtor for my next primary HD. It's a Maxtor DiamondMax 10 300GB 3.5 IDE Ultra ATA133 Hard Drive - OEM --snip-- That's a nice drive, but this one is slightly better Maxtor MaxLine III 7L300R0 300GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache IDE Ultra ATA133 Hard Drive - OEM * Model #: 7L300R0 * Item #: N82E16822144237 * It's enterprise rated, 1,000,000 MTBF and I think it carries a 5 year warranty. Jerry -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
