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Brando
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 Posted: Wed Nov 02, 2005 11:45 pm |
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Hello,
I would just like to inform you all that Western Digital and Maxtor sucks arse from personal experience....take my advice or don't, but Seagate is the way to go, and what I should have done in the first place, with their 5 year warranty.... 
Brand new computer, built late this summer, SATAII Western Digital 250GB Hard Drive crashed...no warning..the head just crashed on me, I lost all my emails.....my Gentoo linux installation that took forever...damn.
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texasred
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Posted: Thu Nov 03, 2005 12:29 am |
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I concur!
WD used to be the bomb. Since capacities went over 100GB, I've never had one last more than two years. And Maxtor is just garbage from the word "go". 
Seagate's the only manufacturer that has a 5 year warranty because it's the only manufacturer with that much faith in their product.
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andrewk
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Posted: Thu Nov 03, 2005 1:15 am |
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Brando wrote: Hello, I would just like to inform you all that Western Digital and Maxtor sucks arse from personal experience....take my advice or don't, but Seagate is the way to go, and what I should have done in the first place, with their 5 year warranty.... Brand new computer, built late this summer, SATAII Western Digital 250GB Hard Drive crashed...no warning..the head just crashed on me, I lost all my emails.....my Gentoo linux installation that took forever...damn. TOC Admin Brando I totally agree. Seagate all the way.
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88delta88
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Posted: Thu Nov 03, 2005 10:13 am |
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Western Digital - I had 2 servers here at the office running dual raid drives 120GB each. One day one drive dropped out of the array, but didnt fail the machine, two days later the other quit working aswell. I ripped all the drives out and replaced with Samsung drives, they seem to be holding up rather well.
Anyone else use samsung drives before?
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Brando
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Posted: Mon Nov 28, 2005 7:52 pm |
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W00T!!
Finally got my new hard drive today...after the long delay with UPS (worst shipping service out there).
Hitachi 250GB SATAII hard drive....makes NO noise at all, unlike the WD I had...that crashed prematurely... 
Unbelieve how fast this computer (64-bit 2.0Ghz athlon 64) is compared to my 32-bit 1.73 Ghz athlon xp.
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Posted: Mon Nov 28, 2005 8:51 pm |
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brando, I have an Athalon XP 1800 and it works great... I also have an Athalon 64 3000+ and it works great too. I havent taken advantage of the 64 bit processor yet, but plan to soon (Installing Suse 10.0) . Hope to see what this 64 bit stuff is all about 
I love AMD...
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88 Coupe
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Posted: Sun Feb 05, 2006 10:04 pm |
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Hello everyone,
Brando wrote: I would just like to inform you all that Western Digital and Maxtor sucks arse from personal experience ....... Here is Seagates reply to your comment. Seagate wrote: ........ The combination of Seagate and Maxtor will build on Seagate’s foundation ........
Sounds like a good start.
I'm 3 for 7 on Maxtors.
Regards, Norm
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Posted: Sun Feb 05, 2006 10:52 pm |
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Brando wrote: I would just like to inform you all that Western Digital and Maxtor sucks arse from personal experience .......
I have an external USB Maxtor 100GB HD. I've had it for a few months and no problems yet... but I don't keep any irreplaceable data on there, just in case. 
I probably wouldn't use one as my main HD, but for a spare it was a good amount of storage for the money. I'll let you guys know when / if it blows up 
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