Re: New g5 purchase.
- From: black.hole@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Jon B)
- Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 16:13:00 +0000
Mike Jenkins <mike.jenkins.no.spam@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 2005-11-22, Jon B <black.hole@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Mike Jenkins <mike.jenkins.no.spam@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >> On 2005-11-22, marcb <marcbSPAMNOT@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> > Mike Jenkins wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> Apple use whatever is cheapest at the time. My current favourite make is
> >> >> Seagate, I would avoid Maxtor and Hitachi drives.
> >> >
> >> > What's wrong with Maxtors? I was just about to buy one - Mac User
> >> > gives one of the models 5 stars or mouses.
> >>
> >> They are hideously unreliable in my experience. They also used to be
> >> noisy and slow but apparently they are less noisy and quite fast now if
> >> you get the more expensive ones.
> >>
> > Rumour I heard was a few years ago they pushed for a new platter tech
> > before it was reliable in order to go for bigger capacities, and ditched
> > the old fab equipment that was doing decent drives. The stigma hung
> > around for a long time after.
>
> That would sound more like the IBM/Glass Platter fiasco to me. Maxtor
> have been unreliable for as long as I can remember.
>
Well iirc they bought out Quantums HD division which was going through a
bad time with their aptly named Fireball drives ;) I got told the above
anyway by a WD employee at a not that long ago expo. Not that I buy
their drives either.
> > But yes I'm in the avoid maxtor camp, but
> > Apple uses them and i've got machines factory fitted with Maxtor drives
> > still runn.....
>
> <beep> <beep> <beep>
>
One I can remember is whining its head off upstairs in an iMac, I'd
ripped it out another higher spec iMac a week before because I was
selling it and thought it can't go like that (and fitted a 60gb Seagate
I happened to have going spare), then the iMac that passed through a
week later which was going to be sold turns out to be needed and had to
run osX, bit tight on the orig 6gb drive so the maxtors gone in that.
I've got an IBM drive kicking around in a machine somewhere thats
sounded rough since it was 6 months old, but its in a quicksilver
somewhere and still going, so that gives an idea on its age now.
> >> Also Seagate give a 5-year warranty on their drives, whereas you only
> >> get 1 year (AFAIK) with Maxtors.
> >
> > 1 yr is for brown boxed OEM drives (just about any make), 3 yr is usual
> > for full retail (although a quick check of a boxed retail on Amazon says
> > 2yr warranty on Maxtors)
>
> Seagate actually offer a 5 year warranty on bare drives.
Ah so they do now, not on them all, but on newer big drives they do.
--
Jon B
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