After the experiences my company has using Dell desktops with Maxtor drives,
as well as some personal experiences (below) I wouldn't have either a Dell
computer *or* a Maxtor drive anywhere near my personal system.
Dells today are the "Acer's" and "Packard Bells" of the current day - cheap,
not easily expandable, and quick to wear out. And here, we're replacing
Maxtor drives daily.
OTOH, the oldest drive in my home network, now revered and used as a zip
file storage drive, is a WD 720 "Caviar." That 720MB drive, small by
current day standards, survived a house fire last year that melted the case
it lived in. The frame, all the drives (3), and even my "ancient" AMD
450Mhz CPU chip survived. The box, however, is slag. I think I'll stay
with WD.
My current home *custom built) system boasts an AMD 1.1Ghz chip, 1 WD 8Gb
system drive, 2 WD 80GB personal account (6 family members) and application
drives, and the 1 old WD as a storage drive (aren't Promise cards
wonderful?!).
Cheers!
Ed Tillman
Store Automation Tech Support Specialist
Valero Energy Corporation
San Antonio, TX; USA
Phone (210) 592-3110, Fax (210) 592-2048
edward.tillman_at_valero.com <mailto:edward.tillman_at_valero.com>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cctalk-admin_at_classiccmp.org_at_PEUSA On Behalf Of "J.C.Wren"
> <jcwren_at_jcwren.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 11:51 PM
> To: cctalk_at_classiccmp.org
> Subject: RE: Maxtor drive goes under
>
> All drive manufacturers have particular models that have had
> problems. For
> instance, you'd have to pay me a damn lot of money to stick anything that
> says "Western Digital" in my systems. I've been running Maxtors for
> years,
> and I recently had a 60GB D740X toast itself. First time ever. OTOH,
> I've
> had WDs belly-up left and right. I used to be a big fan of IBM drives,
> until the DeathStar 60GXP and 75GXP debacle.
>
> www.storagereview.com is a good place to get comparisons of HDs.
> And you
> can contribute your experiences to the database. The database covers a
> lot
> of drives, but was initially started because of the 60GXP and 75GXPs. IBM
> was claiming there was no problem, the rest of the world proved them
> horribly wrong.
>
> Personally, I'll stick with Maxtors. I've got 10 Maxtors HDs
> currently
> spinning here (ranging from 27GB 5400 RPM to 80GB 7200 RPM drives), and
> this
> D740X is the first bad one. And Maxtor has (or had) a damn good warranty.
> There's been some talk about Maxtor and WD going from 3 year warranties to
> 1
> year. Something about getting too expensive, since HDs rarely stay in
> service 3 years (in the real world. Don't start talking here about how
> we're all still running drives from the '70's yada yada yada. We're not a
> real cross section of the market).
>
> --John
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: cctalk-admin_at_classiccmp.org
> > [mailto:cctalk-admin_at_classiccmp.org]On
> > Behalf Of Cameron Kaiser
> > Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2003 00:34
> > To: cctalk_at_classiccmp.org
> > Subject: OT: Maxtor drive goes under
> >
> >
> > I believe Sellam was cursing at a Maxtor drive a couple
> > months back, and
> > now I know why.
> >
> > The 60GB ATA/133 DiamondStar in my Power Mac 7300 (connected
> > through a Sonnet
> > Tempo Trio) this evening made several hiccup-like noises and
> > the computer
> > froze up. On the next power cycle, it didn't spin up and just
> > sat there and
> > clicked. I suspected stiction (well, I prayed it was
> > stiction) and tried
> > reorienting it and a few gentle taps. On the next power
> > cycle, it didn't even
> > click anymore and made occasional soft grinding noises, and
> > now it doesn't
> > even do that.
> >
> > So, I'm typing this on my Power Book 1400, which I guess will
> > be my desktop
> > system for the time being.
> >
> > Any suggestions for ways to get it to spin up, one last time?
> > Anyone know
> > what happened? I thought it had been a power problem because
> > it made some
> > sounds like this a few weeks ago and replacing the power
> > cable did seem to
> > cure it, but I'm mystified as to why it would die so fast.
> > The drive was not
> > especially hot and it has plenty of ventilation.
> >
> > I guarantee you my next drive will not be a Maxtor.
> >
> > Sorry for the OT -- just looking for any desperation
> > suggestions before I
> > make a new hard drive platter wall clock.
> >
> > --
> > ----------------------------- personal page:
> > http://www.armory.com/~spectre/ --
> > Cameron Kaiser, Point Loma Nazarene University *
> > ckaiser_at_stockholm.ptloma.edu
> > -- Son, God's going to use you. Until He does, take this
> > pill. -- Mark Lowry --
>
>
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