Re: Hard drive repair (longish)

ZZactly_at_aol.com
Date: 03/26/05 

Date: 25 Mar 2005 16:41:00 -0800

>*not* buy Maxtor drives as they've been
>some of the least reliable I've dealt with

I've had bood luck with the Diamondmax series, but I have seen plenty
of their cheap drives go bad. The drives they sell to Compaq etc. are
the low end, and I really do think the Diamondmax drives have better
quality control.

IMO WD drives are the worst. Clunk clunk clunk. Its probably one design
flaw that's not easy for them to change, but who cares WHICH part
causes you to lose your data.

Now that I think of it, I've only seen one bad Seagate, and it was
spindle bearing sticktion you could whap it on the side just right and
it would work fine. This only happened when the drive got cold and it
was about 8 years old at the time.

Seen one new bad Diamondmax, but honestly, I dropped it. It was only
from a height of about 1", but it hit a very thick and firmly supported
glass table. It hit right on the bottom.

Yes I have seen a few bad Maxtors, but they were not Diamondmax, they
were all either the kind you get from OfficeMax or something, or OEMs
in a Compaq or an Emachine or something. On the other hand I've seen
alot of WDs bad in 3 years, sometimes sooner. I lost some irreplacable
data on one of them and swore off of WD forever. If the Diamondmaxes
start failing me I'll go with Seagate, unless you have a better
suggestion.

JURB

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