It's been my experience that Maxtor is THE best IDE drive manufacturer out
there. The drives are inexpensive, performa well and durable. The WORST
(IMNSHO) is Western Digital. I have had to return every WD drive I have
ever owned. And, one time when I got a replacement drive, I had to send it
back after it started smoking in my machine. I also had an IBM Deskstar
which was REALLY fast, but it died after about two months of use and I lost
all of my data. When I went to exchange the drive, I was told that IBM had
phased out that model and wasn't doing any replacements. I wound up
exchanging it for a slightly slower (but durable) Maxtor drive. The few
Fuji drives I've had have all developed bad physical sectors within a year
of ownership. Of course, this is just my experience, but I though it may
provide some insight...
>From: Ward William E PHDN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>To: "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: RE: [OT] Hard Drives (Maxtor in particular, but others too).
>Date: Mon, 15 Nov 1999 14:18:04 -0500
>
>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?
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