Maxtor or WD?

[John Wendel]

Craig White wrote:
> 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...
> ----
> I'm with you Claude...my last choice of hard drives is always Maxtor
> 
> Craig
> 


Didn't Seagate just buy Maxtor?  I like Seagate drives, and I don't 
want to get a relabeled Maxtor.

Regards,

John