[H-GEN] Maxtor Hard Drive Failures

[Josh Marshall]

>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.
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I've had no joy with Maxtor or Seagate either

>I support a very large network of desktops and I have enjoyed a very
>good run with Western Digital.
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I had 3 out of 4 Western Digital drives go bad within a week (about 6 
months ago)

Also had problems with IBM drives... Hitachi ones aren't too bad

I guess what I'm trying to say is that >all< drive manufacturers have 
had their bad runs.

My suggestion is to use RAID whenever your data is worth keeping, and if 
possible use different manufacturers for each drive in the RAID. That 
way you can limit the chance of batch or manufacturing faults.

My 2cents :)

Josh.
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