On Fri, 2006-06-16 at 19:21 -0400, Claude Jones wrote: > 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... ---- I'm with you Claude...my last choice of hard drives is always Maxtor Craig
