[H-GEN] Maxtor Hard Drive Failures

David Jericho david.jericho at aarnet.edu.au
Mon Apr 18 19:26:37 EDT 2005


Bruce Campbell wrote:
> So.. whats the current recommendation concerning hard drives, apart from
> 'not Maxtor' ?

Not Maxtor[1].

Western Digital is the brand I've had the least failures with, and 
assuming I can't get those, Seagate.

I can only recall one Western Digital failure in the last 4 or so years. 
I've had a resonable number of Seagate failures, but the SMART 
information always gave me plenty of warning.

I have pulled apart plenty of Maxtors that have failed. The drive 
magnets are excellent at holding unfolded maps onto the ceiling of a 4wd.

[1] Nobody had said it yet, and this is H-GEN.


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