[Gllug] Source for quality 24/7-duty cycle SATA drives?

[John Winters]

On Wed, 2006-04-12 at 17:56 +0100, Christopher Hunter wrote:
> On Wednesday 12 Apr 2006 13:21, t.clarke wrote:
> > Sorry
> > I wasn't trying to simply plug SCSI !!
> >
> > I did say that I have not had any problems with quantum  (now maxtor?) IDE
> > drives.
> >
> > It may be you were just unlucky.
> 
> I've recently had three Maxtor 80 Gb SATA drives fail - all different batch 
> numbers, all used for different things - all failed at about 14 months of 
> light use.  I will not buy that rubbish again!

I too have come to the conclusion that Maxtor drives are not worth
bothering with, having had quite a few fail just outside their warranty
period.  There's a reason why they have just 1 year's warranty where
others have a 5 year warranty.

John

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