[ale] OT: HW failure

[matty91 at bellsouth.net]

On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Calvin Harrigan wrote:

> >
> > Not to start an OT 'get down on Maxtor' thread (yeah, sure ;), I get
> > the impression that they haven't changed much in QC over the yrs. Back
> > when they made 540MB hds, when that was the latest cat's meow by
> > pushing the DOS/BIOS/etc limit, I went through three exchanges of those
> > myself. Haven't bought one since and never will (albeit freebies of any
> > size I have never turned down ;). I still to this day read a lot of
> > anectodal negative stuff per their perceived failure rates. I have to
> > wonder if even part of what I read is true, what kinds of failure rates
> > does Maxtor actually have, and if they really suck, how are they are
> > still in business with all the bad 'press'? (Answer: cheap?) Is there a
> > non-commercially affiliated site that quantifies brands of hds as to
> > MTBF etc?
> >
> > Seems I've personally had pretty good luck with Quantum, and Seagate in
> > general hasn't been too bad.
> > -fgz
> >
> Funny you should mention that, I've had similar experiences with WD.  Returned
> a 1.6 Gig 6 times!  Sold it the last time.  This was all within 1 year.  I
> have sworn off WD's.  I'm sure someone can bring a similar argument for just
> about any other brand.  In drives that I have used I would rate them in the
> following order from most reliable to least.

I have had great luck with Seagate IDE disk drives. They are the quietest
and the most relaible IDE disks I have found. I have also sworn off WD
after two disks died.

>
> Quantum (Conner?)
> Seagate
> IBM
> Samsung
> Maxtor
> Fujitsu
> Western Digital
>
>
> One last note, heat seems to kill a lot of drives.  Make sure that your drives
> are properly ventilated, you know, not stacked one top of each other in a
> regular Mid-Tower case.  I've measure 130 degrees in that space between the
> drives.
>
> Calvin...
>
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