[H-GEN] Maxtor Hard Drive Failures

[Rick Phillips]

Bruce,

> Over the last few months, I've had a total of 4 IDE Maxtor drives fail
> under both intense and medium load situations.  They are from 3 different
> batches, and only one of them replacable under warranty (thanks Dell and
> Mark).
> 
I have never, in all my years of working with computers, had much joy
from Maxtor.  Nor have I got a great deal of confidence in Seagate.
Despite their (now) five year warranty, I have had too many failures
there also.

> So.. whats the current recommendation concerning hard drives, apart from
> 'not Maxtor' ?
> 
I support a very large network of desktops and I have enjoyed a very
good run with Western Digital.

Regards,

Rick Phillips