On May 23, 2006, at 7:56 AM, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote:
On Monday 22 May 2006 23:18, Samuel Baldwin wrote:
I'm planning on buying a 300GB HD from maxtor for my next primary HD.
It's a "Maxtor DiamondMax 10 300GB 3.5" IDE Ultra ATA133 Hard
Drive - OEM"
well, Seagate has bought maxtor (is buying maxtor at the moment) -
so they
will be gone in a short while.
And maxtor had some quality issues in the not -so-distant-past.
I am not sure, if that are points for buying Maxtor....
All companies have problems. I have had lots of issues with WD disks
(SATA) about 2 years ago that I had to RMA. Also, there are problems
with some WD SATA compatibility. I just had to RMA a brand new out
of the box Seagate SATA last month. It was DOA. I had some Fujitsu
SCSI disks I had to RMA a few years ago. I can't remember any Maxtor
disks failing, though there is one disk I had to RMA a year or so ago
and I cannot remember the make -- it could have been Maxtor. I have
not bought Maxtor in the last 2 years though. Recently, based on a
bunch of reviews of Hitachi disks, and some negatives on Seagate
performance (in a particular realm) I have been buying Hitachi, and
up to recently Seagate, based on their longer warranty.
Remember, all makers have issues and I am sure you can find people to
sing the praises as well as damn any of the disk makers.
Chad
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