[Eug-lug] Damaged hard drive

[roger]

On Fri, 2007-05-18 at 16:34 -1000, marbux wrote:

> I've had a bad attitude about Seagate quality since the days of DR DOS
> and 4DOS. But I haven't given them another chance since then. I have
> had no problems with Maxtor's drives whatsoever. The only reason I
> ever replaced them was the need for higher capacity and speed. IIRC,
> what was my first Maxtor is still running on my step-daughter's
> formerly Windows 98 machine (now MEPIS). I was concerned when Seagate
> absorbed Maxtor a month or two back.  But maybe I should read that as
> them agreeing with you that Seagate's quality is acceptable these
> days. :-)

>From what I understood for the past 5 years, Maxtor was about the same
as WD in quality... ie. "You get what you pay for."

I've got approx 5 WD drives around here, 3 have been kicking for the
past 5 years (10,20,40GB).  

Seems the like the 5-6 year old drives were really good, but then, any
drive purchased recently since 4 years ago, just drop like flies
(>=120GB).  Think it's a multitude of factors including heat, and cheap
parts.  To include an engineering defect not being able to take *any*
abuse.

<shrugs>

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Sat May 19 10:43:29 PDT 2007