[G5] Drives????

[Robert Hazelrigg]

My last 2 Macs killed all of the hard drives (external and internal)  
every 16 months since switching to OS X 4 years ago. Mac OS 9 let my  
drives live about twice as long.
FYI: Maxtor is not my favorite brand...

On Jul 26, 2005, at 11:07 PM, Pat wrote:

>
> My good friend, with a Dell less than 6 months old, and my d-i-l  
> had HD's die the same day...both Dells.  The good friend had a  
> Maxtor SATA drive in hers.  I've owned 6, no 7 Macs and they all  
> still work...no drive failures.
>
> Is this a PC problem, or am I just very lucky?  I'm knocking on  
> wood as I write this on my iMac G5.
>
> I don't know about Maxtor HDs and have no idea about what my d-i-l  
> had in hers.
>
> Is this common on Macs, or if not, which drives have a bad record?   
> How can I tell what my 3 Macs have now?
>
> Pat
>
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