RE: OT: Maxtor 120Gb disks at Scan

["Gerard McGovern" <stuff@xxxxxxx>]

> > Maybe I've been very lucky then because I wouldn't buy
> > anything but an IBM for IDE drives. Currently running 4 x 
> > 123.5 GB Deskstar drives and a 48 GB Travelstar drive.
> 
> Fine, your expeience is OK at the moment ... How old are 
> those drives because if you do some digging you will find a 
> very high failure rate once the drives get to about 30 months 
> old.

These drives I've got are all less than 6 months old. However, I have
been using IBM drives for over 4 years without any problems ... maybe
I've just been lucky.

If we are talking SCSI drives, it would be Seagate all the way.

G

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