[Cialug] Maxtor drives

[Chris Hilton]

I dunno, I kinda like the crunching of a good loud drive.  It tells ya
when it's writing and reading to/from the disk!  And unlike fan noise it
doesn't give you a headache.

On Tue, 2005-05-17 at 14:08 -0500, Nathan C. Smith wrote:
> Samsung Quieter than Seagate to be sure.  I believe they are made with PVR
> in mind.
> 
> Probably not so different that it would make a big deal except in a fanless
> situation.  I replaced a Samsung with a Seagate and from 20 feet away above
> the noise of other fans I can hear the Seagate where I did not hear the
> Samsung before.  (as an aside I don't know if the drive failed or the OS
> scrambled it).
> 
> It sounds like most people agree that Seagate is going to edge everything
> else out for reliability though, I can trade a little bit of silence for
> that.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Don Cady [mailto:doncady@bigfoot.com] 
> Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2005 1:50 PM
> To: cialug@cialug.org
> Subject: Re: [Cialug] Maxtor drives
> 
> 
> 
> > 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 
> 
> 
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