[geeks] disk advice

[Shawn Wallbridge]

One year ago we bought a sh*tload of PC's. All the workstations had IBM
Deskstar drives, all the render slaves had Maxtors.

Overall we bought about 100 hard drives, evenly split between IBM and
Maxtor. I have sent back 10 (out of 50) IBM drives and NO Maxtors.

I will not buy IBM drives any more. We just bought another 40 machines and
each one of them has a Maxtor drive. We also bought 5-160GB Maxtor Firewire
drives and they are wonderful.

shawn

-----Original Message-----
From: geeks-admin at sunhelp.org [mailto:geeks-admin at sunhelp.org]On Behalf
Of Peter Street
Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2002 10:12 AM
To: geeks at sunhelp.org
Subject: RE: [geeks] disk advice


I've had a 75GPX 75GB now for over a year (Bought it Sept 2000), and
I've recommended similar variants of the drives for many people.  As of
yet, I've had no drives go down - that's out of around 10-15 drives
purchased since that time.

Peter Street
Web Developer / Manager
LazerFX Productions
www.lazerfx.co.uk (Under Construction)


> -----Original Message-----
> From: geeks-admin at sunhelp.org [mailto:geeks-admin at sunhelp.org] On
Behalf
> Of Peter L. Wargo
> Sent: 20 February 2002 16:06
> To: geeks at sunhelp.org
> Subject: Re: [geeks] disk advice
>
> I just swapped out my IBM 45M 75GXP-series for a 5400 RPM Maxtor 80G.
> I'm quite happy - it's a bit slower, but I bet it'll last longer. (The
> 75GXP drives, especially the 30M and 45M, have a really high failure
> rate.  REALLY high.)