[ale] suddenly finding computer 'seized-up'....ATTN:DowHurst-2

[Dan Lambert]

I've been using WD drives almost exclusively for a while now.

It's really weird, but I've never owned a Seagate drive that lived linger
than about 6 months. I won't waste my money on them anymore. I used to buy a
lot of Maxtor drives, but now Seagate has bought them. I doubt I'll buy any
more Maxtors.

Dan 

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From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Pat
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Regan
Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2006 8:42 PM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [ale] suddenly finding computer 'seized-up'....ATTN:DowHurst-2

Jerry Yu wrote:
> amen to that. last June I had a scsi 10K 73G drive failing on me upon 
> first boot of a brand-new dell server.
> 

Anymore, I base my hard drive purchases on how easy the RMA process is :p.
The sad thing is, I am not kidding.

I had a Maxtor drive start giving me errors a month after I bought it (a
friend of mine bought of the exact same drive, one was DOA the other died
within 6 months).  I went to the website, they said I had to run MaxBlast on
the drive and enter a code before I could RMA the drive...

This was a royal PITA, because I had to take the drive off my 3ware
controller.  It was even worse, because MaxBlast claimed to have fixed the
problem.  Two months later and 3 more MaxBlasts, and I was finally able to
RMA it.

Western Digital's website will let you RMA anything under warranty.  I have
not had to RMA any Seagate drives (I don't own any :p).

Pat