[Cialug] Maxtor drives

[Josh More]

On Mon, 2005-05-16 at 12:03 -0500, Nathan C. Smith wrote:
> Does anyone else have the same disdain for the Maxtor brand that I do?  I
> will never knowingly purchase a drive marked Maxtor.
> 
> We have an inexpensive Compaq DL320 I use to store and image drives from.
> Unbelievably, it came with Maxtor IDE drives in it.  (It was from over three
> years ago - I chose IDE over SCSI at the time because it was non-critical
> and I could get more capacity for less $$$ with IDE). I have had two Maxtor
> drives fail in the unit over the past two years.  I have had other poor
> experiences with Maxtor at home as well - from before I knew better.  
> 
> Anyone have anything good to say about Maxtor?  Anyone else care to vent?

I have lost far more Maxtor drives than any other brand.  I am to the
point where if a workstation has a problem, and it uses a Maxtor, I 
declare a disk error and replace it with a Seagate or Western Digital.
It entails a rebuild of the system, which usually fixes the problem,
and it takes the amazingly flaky drive out of the picture.


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