[Cialug] Maxtor drives

[Neal Daringer]

may i ask what qualifies as "fails"? i'm not sure if i've had a drive fail?

Quoting "Dave J. Hala Jr." <dave@58ghz.net>:

> I bought three maxtor drives 18 month ago.  All three failed with in a
> year. (all in differant machines) Of the three that were replaced under
> warranty, one of the replacements failed.
>
> Never again.
>
>
> On Mon, 2005-05-16 at 12:03, 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?
>>
>> -Nate
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