[Cialug] Maxtor drives

[Don Cady]

> If I want quiet I buy Samsung.  I'm guessing they are probably somewhere
> between WD and Seagate on quality spectrum.
Quieter than Seagates?
Piping my 2¢ in on this thread, I'd rank HDs in quality like this now:
Seagate > IBM(now Hitachi) > Fujitsu > WD > Maxtor, with Hitachi & Fujitsu 
really close. Haven't delt with many Samsung drives. Maxtor and Quantum have 
long been bad. (and whadyaknow...) It seems like Maxtor had the higher 
failure rate, but they always happily replaced them. It's almost like their 
business model has the foreknowledge of high failure built in: They have 
plenty of people on the phones and docks ready to take your drive because, 
Hey!, they've been expecting it. It just rubs me the wrong way.
Add to that Lee's 9-3-04 post on them relabeling drives and it starts to 
make sense..

Don