Re: [newbie] missing libraries, awkward fonts (Maxtor Drives)
On Saturday 21 Jun 2003 4:04 am, Erylon Hines wrote: I don't disagree with that, and I certainly expect my $300 scsi to last longer than a $30 Maxtor. But, it doesn't always happen that way. The only safe thing to do is back up your data regularly, and keep a couple of extra drives on hand. or run RAID. Even 5 drives would only cost $150, add in an IDE card to drive them, and a bit of mecano and few few power splitters to mount them. Then a drive failure wouldn't loose any data. -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] missing libraries, awkward fonts (Maxtor Drives)
Come on people. ALL drives fail, and I don't care what brand you have. When I was an admin a couple of years ago we had a stack of failed Seagates 2 ft high. I have 8 boxes here, and have lost 1 drive in the past 2 years (a WD). I have Quantum, Seagate (factory rebuilt scsi full-height 9 gig drives bought a couple of years ago when storage was expensive and re-builts could be had for cheap), WD and Maxtor drives. I think we may be seeing a lot of failed Maxtors because there are a LOT of Maxtors out there now (you can get a 30 gig Maxtor for $30 at Staples after the rebate). You wrote: Maxtor bad, Matrox good. Isaac Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; name=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] missing libraries, awkward fonts (Maxtor Drives)
On Friday 20 June 2003 01:57 pm, Erylon Hines wrote: Come on people. ALL drives fail, and I don't care what brand you have. When I was an admin a couple of years ago we had a stack of failed Seagates 2 ft high. I have 8 boxes here, and have lost 1 drive in the past 2 years (a WD). I have Quantum, Seagate (factory rebuilt scsi full-height 9 gig drives bought a couple of years ago when storage was expensive and re-builts could be had for cheap), WD and Maxtor drives. I think we may be seeing a lot of failed Maxtors because there are a LOT of Maxtors out there now (you can get a 30 gig Maxtor for $30 at Staples after the rebate). You wrote: Maxtor bad, Matrox good. Isaac You're probably both right. I've noted that these things tend to run in streaks -- a while back, WD's had a very bad reputation. Then IBM had problems. Fujitsu recently took their turn in the barrel. Now it looks as if Maxtor may be in for a rough spell (not something I like to think about; there's three of them running here). I've also observed these problems occur with the lower cost product lines, but the premium drives seem to keep on running. Remember too that most HD manufacturers recently cut their warranties from three years to one year on their low cost lines, but did not cut back the warranty period for their premium lines. Could there be a connection? You betcha. -- cmg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] missing libraries, awkward fonts (Maxtor Drives)
I don't disagree with that, and I certainly expect my $300 scsi to last longer than a $30 Maxtor. But, it doesn't always happen that way. The only safe thing to do is back up your data regularly, and keep a couple of extra drives on hand. e. On Friday 20 June 2003 06:17 pm, Carroll Grigsby wrote: I've also observed these problems occur with the lower cost product lines, but the premium drives seem to keep on running. Remember too that most HD manufacturers recently cut their warranties from three years to one year on their low cost lines, but did not cut back the warranty period for their premium lines. Could there be a connection? You betcha. -- cmg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
