[Beds] Re: Strange IDE Problem

[Neil Darlow]

Hi Steve,

On Thursday 16 Jun 2005 12:31, techweb at ntlworld.com wrote:
> I don't rekon these Maxtor drives are any good, anybody got any good ideas
> for a reliable replacement. I've seen so many Maxtors fail recently. I'm
> thinking Seagate or Western Digital next.

I run software RAID-1 mirrors on my Linux systems and I've had one of a pair 
of both Maxtor and Western Digital drives fail. The other drives, from the 
same batch and bought at the same time, continue to work without errors.

I guess it's a sign of the times that hardware is engineered down-to-cost and 
quality and reliability suffer as a result. It might be worth trying Seagate. 
I haven't used them in a long while but I never had a bad experience with 
them when I did.

Contrast this with a pair of Fujitsu 10GB UDMA-66 drives which have been 
running in my FreeBSD system 24x7 for the last 5 years, without even a 
glitch.

Regards,
Neil Darlow
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