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Old Nov 11, 06
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Maxtor HD's

GO TO HELL!!!

1TB Raid5 system crashed after 3 months, click click click.. @#$)(*!@(#

250GB x 4

Just rebuilt my raid5 with new 250GB x 4 WD sata2 HD's
also added 4GB RAM and 2x 19" wide lcd screens.
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Old Nov 11, 06
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Maxtor's always been hit or miss with me. I've had some that are still going strong for almost 7 years, and I've had some die within about 5 months. Seagate's have always worked best for me. Western Digital's usually work well for me as well.
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Old Nov 11, 06
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My WD died on me after 3 months. They gave me a new one then that flaked in a years time.

I've never had problems with Seagates.
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Old Nov 12, 06
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I'm using a seagate barracuda 300gb right now, love it.

cant wait to put it in my new computer... porn time!
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Old Nov 12, 06
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I'd never buy a drive over 250GB's unless there was some kind of raid setup. That's just stupid.
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Old Nov 12, 06
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Maxtor blows. Take this from someone that used to work in a computer store. :p
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Old Nov 12, 06
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Maxtor blows.
Quoted for truth.
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Old Nov 12, 06
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redick...

western digital is the way to go.
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Old Nov 12, 06
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I find Maxtor to be pretty good.

Haven't experienced any problems yet.

I have a 250GB maxtor external drive for all my music, I can take it anywhere and it's never failed me in the 2 years i've had it.
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Old Nov 12, 06
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External Maxtors always crap out on me. They just randomly loose their partition table.
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Old Nov 12, 06
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Maxtors were crap 5 years ago and they haven't improved much since.

Seagate, Western Digital and Samsung are the way to go.
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Old Nov 12, 06
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My 80Gb Maxtor just randomly went Tits-Up on me about a Year and some ago.

Fucking thing.
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Old Nov 13, 06
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i have a samsung, its a beautiful thing, altho i have not once had a HD fail on me.

*knock on wood* maybe im lucky? maybe your HD's need a little more TLC? lol
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Old Nov 13, 06
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there are ups and downs with every vendor. i've had a maxtor last me for 8 years in a desktop system that was always on, and i've had almost a hundred western digital drives die on me at work because they were from the "march 2004" batch.
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Old Nov 13, 06
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BTW narc, what type of drives were you using? The Maxline from Maxtor was more designed for 24/7 use, and has a higher MTBF than the Diamondmax series. Even still, I never really trusted the Maxline from Maxtor.

If I were using anything other than SCSI, I've always used the Western Digital RE and Seagate Near-Line series of drives. These drives have 1000000+ MTBF, and they've been extremely reliable in every server I've ever sold.
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