RE: OT: Maxtor 120Gb disks at Scan

["Phillip Harris" <phil@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.

That's twice you've been lucky! :-)

I've been using Maxtors since '91 and have never had problems...

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

SCSI is still too expensive for me to use for hard discs ... I don't
need the speed.

Phil

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