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"PM" wrote in news:ce9hmj$ufr$1
@newsg4.svr.pol.co.uk: Maxtor used to be the absolute worst **** money could buy, then they got very good, but are losing quality again, it seems. Are you talking about the IDE drives or SCSI drives. My experience of the IDE drives is that, if they last, they are very good. Regards the SCSI drives though, they always appear to be rated very highly - I have a few 10K3 drives and I was considering sticking with Maxtor for a forthcoming upgrade. Are there problems with the current 15K offerings? Ah, the SCSI drives are Quantum - they've always been good, in my experience -- /Jesper Monsted |
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Jesper Monsted wrote:
chrisv wrote in : Wacko jibber snipped. Shouldn't the post be empty, then? There's nothing but wacko ranting coming from the ronnie-beast. True, I didn't snip all of Rod^Hn's jibber. Maybe I should have. 8) |
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On Thu, 29 Jul 2004 01:54:00 +0100, "PM" wrote:
Are there problems with the current 15K offerings? A frying pan would help as those high speed drives can get really hot. Nothing like fresh eggs and bacon while reading emails in the morning. Do make sure your PC case have excellent cooling system before considering 10K+ drives. -- To reply, replace digi.mon with tds.net |
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Jesper Monsted writes:
Maxtor used to be the absolute worst **** money could buy, then they got very good, but are losing quality again, it seems. Not really. Spun up a pair of 380MB ESDI drives last night. Anyone remember them? Seem fine, once the grease warmed up a bit and got spread around a little -- Paul Repacholi 1 Crescent Rd., +61 (08) 9257-1001 Kalamunda. West Australia 6076 comp.os.vms,- The Older, Grumpier Slashdot Raw, Cooked or Well-done, it's all half baked. EPIC, The Architecture of the future, always has been, always will be. |
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"Impmon" wrote in message news On Thu, 29 Jul 2004 01:54:00 +0100, "PM" wrote: Are there problems with the current 15K offerings? A frying pan would help as those high speed drives can get really hot. No, users let them get hot. It's the users responsibility to keep the HDs cool. Nothing like fresh eggs and bacon while reading emails in the morning. Do make sure your PC case have excellent cooling system before considering 10K+ drives. Or use drive coolers. |
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chrisv wrote in
: True, I didn't snip all of Rod^Hn's jibber. Maybe I should have. 8) Or just snip Ron entirely - let the jihad guys in Iraq have him. -- /Jesper Monsted |
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Jesper Monsted wrote:
chrisv wrote: True, I didn't snip all of Rod^Hn's jibber. Maybe I should have. 8) Or just snip Ron entirely - let the jihad guys in Iraq have him. He'd fit right in with those wackos. Pretty soon we'd have terrorist attacks on SCSI controller makers, not to mention the heretics at storagereview.com... 8) |
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"Ron Reaugh" writes:
Has anyone ever heard anyone claim that the length of a HD's warranty was simply a marketing and price point decision by the mfg and the warranty length has nothing to do with expected drive life? It cannot be *totally* unrelated. A manufacturer doesn't want a whole lot of returns. You can expect that *most* drives will *at least* make it through the warranty period. A hard drive is free to continue operation well past the warranty expiration time. As far as I can tell, the 3 to 1 year standard ATA warrenty shorting has had no impact on actual drive lifetimes. Somewhere I think I remember someone making such a claim and a bunch of trolls tried unsuccessfully to shoot him down? -- Johan KULLSTAM |
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chrisv wrote in
: He'd fit right in with those wackos. Pretty soon we'd have terrorist attacks on SCSI controller makers, not to mention the heretics at storagereview.com... 8) Actually, i'd prefer if they'd just implant a large storage system in his rectal passage, but seeing him get blown up by a tomahawk missile could be fun, too -- /Jesper Monsted |
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"Impmon" wrote in message
news On Thu, 29 Jul 2004 01:54:00 +0100, "PM" wrote: Are there problems with the current 15K offerings? A frying pan would help as those high speed drives can get really hot. Nothing like fresh eggs and bacon while reading emails in the morning. Do make sure your PC case have excellent cooling system before considering 10K+ drives. -- To reply, replace digi.mon with tds.net Indeed they can - I have a Lian Li case which, so far, appears upto the job. I was looking at getting CD bay drive coolers for any 15k drives I get.. Thanks for your advice PM |
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