Maxtor or WD?

[Craig White]

On Fri, 2006-06-16 at 19:21 -0400, Claude Jones wrote:
> On Friday June 16 2006 18:04, fredex wrote:
> > Claude:
> >
> > I cannot, obviously, refute your experience. What happened has happened.
> >
> > All I can say is that I've used a stack of maxtors at home and at work
> > over the last 5-6 years. The only ones I've had trouble with are the little
> > 1/4-height 20 gig drives, which tend to run 2 to 2 1/2 years then go
> > belly up. i've had nearly everyone of them replaced under warranty
> > (before Maxtor dropped from 3 years to 1) and the replacements, with
> > one exception, are still going. I've got several other maxtors around
> > the house, some of them in use, some on the "spares" shelf, and so far,
> > so good.
> 
> We've been rather appalled, to say the least. We've wasted a lot of time, 
> money, and what price can you put on aggravation; once, the head of the firm 
> lost a USB external full of VM's he'd custom-created for his software 
> development environments; he hadn't backed them up anywhere. That was a 
> moment of serious tension, but he couldn't blame anyone but himself. I tend 
> to be over the top about keeping things cool - under my other cap, I operate 
> a TV studio and non-linear video workstations that need serious cooling; I 
> put lots of fans on my drives - all drives get installed with big fans 
> blowing across them, or in cages with dual mini-fans. It kind of took me by 
> surprise the first time I opened one of those USB externals up and found no 
> cooling fans - I now buy drives, and after market cases with fans in them, 
> separately, and build my own externals... As I mentioned, there are plenty of 
> fora on the net where this problem is discussed - I was somewhat surprised 
> that no one here had anything negative to say about Maxtor, so I thought I 
> should post my experiences. I'm glad your experience has been different, so 
> far, but caveat emptor...
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I'm with you Claude...my last choice of hard drives is always Maxtor

Craig