[MacDV] Re: Upgrading

[filipp]

Well, during the few years I've
worked in Mac support I've seen more
broken Maxtors than any other brand... by far.

Maybe it's because they're so popular... I don't know..
but it seems it's the same situation that happened to
Western Digital in the nineties - they got big and then their
quality fell through the floor. It seems the volume
of manufacture is reversely equal to the quality.

-filipp

Paul Moortgat wrote:
> I've a different story.  My Maxtor drives (6) aren't broken yet. A 
> neighbor's Seagate has stop working in a flash.  A guy who can know 
> repaired it for a while, but it was damaged to much to hold longer.  The 
> problem is usually a capacitor located near the power connector.
> 
> Paul Moortgat
> 
> On 13-feb-04, at 07:09, filipp wrote:
> 
>> I recommend Westerd Digital drives,
>> they're reliable, quiet and give very good
>> performance. The Seagate's are OK too. I'd
>> steer clear of Maxtor's IDE drives as those
>> have the highest failure rate in the industry
>> atm.
>> Here's a nice resource for deciding on a new HD:
>> http://storagereview.com/php/tiki/tiki-index.php?page=LeaderBoard
> 
> 
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