I have heard a number of stories about Seagate's drives being fast, but having
problems losing sectors outside of this list. It seems that most current hard
drives very rarely loose sectors unless there is a significant defect and the
drive is not going to last much longer. On the other hand I
to be safe.
Jay DeKing
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Subject: Re: [expert] hard drive experiences (was 8.0 final --brakes
MANY applications (Software Installeris first on that list))
Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 00:17:36 +
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for my purposes. At
this time I have one 30GB WD, a 30GB Maxtor, and a 40GB Maxtor all in
the same box and they're running just fine. The WD is on a different IDE
port than the Maxtors, though, just to be safe.
Jay DeKing
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Subject: Re: [expert] hard drive
I have gathered a little more information about more recent Seagates.
One machine that was put together about 4 years ago using over 50 4 Gig
drives lost three in two years. It's successor with half as many much
bigger Seagate drives has been chugging away for the past two years and
has yet to
On Thursday 26 April 2001 07:52 pm, Walter Luffman wrote:
Let me see if I have this straight. At various times Western Digital,
IBM, Quantum and Maxtor have all produced drives that are lemons. These
makers have also produced some very good drives. Is that about right?
Okay, who has
On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, Walter Luffman wrote:
Let me see if I have this straight. At various times Western Digital, IBM,
Quantum and Maxtor have all produced drives that are lemons. These makers
have also produced some very good drives. Is that about right?
Okay, who has horror stories
Yes, IBM drives tend to be VERY good. Especially the
75GXP series.
And besides, at least IBM tries to put some money back
into Linux and promotion of Linux.
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On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, Walter Luffman wrote:
Let me see if I have this straight. At various
times
Whoa, do you think I should move to IBM drives now?
Maxtor IMHO still makes good drives. But I went for a
30 gig IBM Deskstar last October.
David E. Fox Thanks for letting me
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Let me see if I have this straight. At various times Western Digital, IBM,
Quantum and Maxtor have all produced drives that are lemons. These makers
have also produced some very good drives. Is that about right?
Most likely. I have no direct experience with WD or Quantum; my brother had
I think that most of the manufacturers mentioned before (WD, Seagate,
Quantum, Fujitsu, IBM) had lemons, as well as good models and all improved
the technology during the years.
I just remembered that WD had for a while issues with UDMA transfers - I
think they corrected it by now - but it
Quantum and Maxtor are now one, though you can still differentiate which drive
line belongs to who because the line names haven't changed. I hear good things
about both of these lines now, but my memory is still scared by both. Even
though I use IBM drives now, I still remember the stickion
Whoa, do you think I should move to IBM drives now?
I hear that they are good but I did not know that about the
Quantum ones!---Whoa.
On Thursday 26 April 2001 05:02 am, so spoke [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Quantum and Maxtor are now one, though you can still differentiate which
drive line belongs
Chubby Vic wrote:
Whoa, do you think I should move to IBM drives now?
I hear that they are good but I did not know that about the
Quantum ones!---Whoa.
You guys are killing me! Maybe I have just been lucky. I have run Conner,
Seagate, Maxtor, WD and IBM drives for the past ten years. The
Let me see if I have this straight. At various times Western Digital, IBM,
Quantum and Maxtor have all produced drives that are lemons. These makers
have also produced some very good drives. Is that about right?
Okay, who has horror stories to tell about Seagate and Fujitsu? (I've never
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