Ya know, I've been thinking about the message the original poster against
Maxtor drives wrote... he also mentioned that he had had a lot of problems
with getting support for Maxtor. I don't know what it's like in Germany
(where he was posting from) but all I have to do is call a Toll-Free number
here in the US and get automated support for every drive ever made by
Maxtor... forget your jumper settings? Call the line, punch in the model
number, and voila, it'll tell you everything. Far from being poor support,
I've found they give excellent support for the things I need most.
Now, I find the Max-Blaster software near useless... but that's my
experience with it. YMMV, of course.
I'm curious as to the problems that he's had with Maxtor in the past, and
peoples experiences with other Hard Drive manufacturers, both in reliability
and in support. I know, it's not completely on-topic... but Hard Drives for
the machines are important (one of the four cornerstones of a machine...
CPU, memory, Video card and Hard Drives). Anyone else want to chime in with
their experiences with Maxtor, Fuji, Seagate, Connor, IBM and WD? Mine are
Excellent, Poor, Very Good, Fair-good, No basis to judge, and Mixed (very
poor and good). David, care to tell us your experiences with Maxtors that
left such a bad taste in your mouth?
Bill Ward
-----Original Message-----
From: Gene Aulich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, November 15, 1999 2:02 PM
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Subject: Re: [OT] build a Linux box for $800
I have one machine with 4 maxtor drives and 2 others with 2 each. My son has
2 in his machine and my daughter has 2. I will not use any drive but Maxtor.
I have had problems with WD, Seagate and Quantum.
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From: Phil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, November 15, 1999 5:56 AM
Subject: Re: [OT] build a Linux box for $800
> Hi
> This whole topic is quite interesting for those puting together hardware
> I build systems for clients in the caribbean
> I wont list al the hardrives and failures, but
> in the past few years I have found Maxtor to be possibly the most reliable
on
> IDE
> and certainly the easiest to deal with for returns
> I have returned more WD's than anything else ( which reminds me I have to
> return this
> 4.3 Gb WD for the fifth time :-)
> Phil
>
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