On Friday June 16 2006 18:04, fredex wrote: > Claude: > > I cannot, obviously, refute your experience. What happened has happened. > > All I can say is that I've used a stack of maxtors at home and at work > over the last 5-6 years. The only ones I've had trouble with are the little > 1/4-height 20 gig drives, which tend to run 2 to 2 1/2 years then go > belly up. i've had nearly everyone of them replaced under warranty > (before Maxtor dropped from 3 years to 1) and the replacements, with > one exception, are still going. I've got several other maxtors around > the house, some of them in use, some on the "spares" shelf, and so far, > so good. We've been rather appalled, to say the least. We've wasted a lot of time, money, and what price can you put on aggravation; once, the head of the firm lost a USB external full of VM's he'd custom-created for his software development environments; he hadn't backed them up anywhere. That was a moment of serious tension, but he couldn't blame anyone but himself. I tend to be over the top about keeping things cool - under my other cap, I operate a TV studio and non-linear video workstations that need serious cooling; I put lots of fans on my drives - all drives get installed with big fans blowing across them, or in cages with dual mini-fans. It kind of took me by surprise the first time I opened one of those USB externals up and found no cooling fans - I now buy drives, and after market cases with fans in them, separately, and build my own externals... As I mentioned, there are plenty of fora on the net where this problem is discussed - I was somewhat surprised that no one here had anything negative to say about Maxtor, so I thought I should post my experiences. I'm glad your experience has been different, so far, but caveat emptor... -- Claude Jones Brunswick, MD, USA
