Re: Are maxtor drive known to fail???


"Custom Computers" <trick-comp2004@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> About 3 years ago I ordered a dozen 80 gig Western Digital drives. Out
> of that dozen 9 were bad right out of the box. Now Western Digital
> replaced the 9 and out of those only 1 has failed. They said it was a
> flaw in that batch run. Haven't had any problems with there drives
> since then.
>
> I've never had a Maxtor fail, never had a Seagate fail. Have also had 1
> IBM fail. But that IBM drive lasted 6 years before failing.
>

I will only use Seagate now but then I like to be able to go back and find
my data exactly where I left it.


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