On the topic of HDs
Duane Attaway
dattaway at dattaway.org
Fri Nov 14 11:09:36 CST 2003
On Fri, 14 Nov 2003, admin at 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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