[wplug] OT - word of warning on Maxtor 250GB drives

[Moshe Katz-Hyman]

This is why I was planning on picking up a few and running a software raid5
with a hotspare. :)

Where have you seen these special running?

Moshe

On 2/13/06, Vanco, Don <don.vanco at agilysys.com> wrote:
>
> Quite a few places are now blowing out these drives crazy-cheap (the
> ATA-100 and ATA-133 versions, both 8MB cache).  I have quite a few of
> these (like 2TB), and in the last month I have lost 3 of them.  All
> under similar circumstances - when they near 75-80% full they start to
> flake, shortly thereafter your data is toast.  On one RMA the
> replacement drive I got went bad the day after I sent the failed drive
> it was intended to replace back to Maxtor - I am in the process of
> recalling that shipment and getting a replacement for the replacement to
> attempt to recover the 180GB of data that drive holds.
>
> 3 year warranties be damned - warranties do nothing for your lost data,
> just get you brand-new (or worse - refurbed) junk drives.  I am
> officially off Maxtor/Seagate.  I'll stick with Hitachi - least
> error-prone of the drives I have currently.
>
> YMMV
> Don
>
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