Hmmm, I guess everybody has their horror stories.
I've never had a Maxtor drive fail. I have had
problems with Western Digital. I bought one years ago
and it was DOA, so I returned it for another one
and it was DOA. So I told them to give me back my
money.
I went and got a Maxtor then. Then again my first
drive was WD and it still works 20 years later, not
that I have much use for a 20MB HD. 

--- Duane Attaway wrote:
> On Fri, 14 Nov 2003, admin@kclinux.net wrote:
> 
> > That's not a bad price at all.  It's about $10
> cheaper online w/ s&h
> > included, but I'd rather go get it now than wait 5
> - 7 days and having
> > the hassle of returning it if it arrives broken. 
> Though I do hear alot
> > of horror stories about Maxtor's drives.  If you
> see a good deal on a
> > Western Digital w/ 8MB buffer, let me know.  :)
> 
> Big difference between a good and bad drive.  I
> bought one of those bad
> Maxtor 160GB drives.  Within minutes of filling up
> the drive, I started
> getting bad sectors.  Lots of them.  I exchanged it
> for another and this
> one appears to be a good one.  The ide-smart utility
> has not detected any
> quality degradation for nearly a year since I had
> it.
> 
> Hopefully, that won't change if I ever have to power
> down the computer.  
> I heard horror stories about starting up drives that
> never been powered
> down.  Its been running non-stop since I installed
> it.
> 
> Maybe I was a bit harsh when I installed the first
> one, lightly tapping it
> against the rails.  And sneezed.  Oooops.
> 
> 
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