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On May 23, 2006, at 7:56 AM, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: |
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> On Monday 22 May 2006 23:18, Samuel Baldwin wrote: |
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>> I'm planning on buying a 300GB HD from maxtor for my next primary HD. |
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>> It's a "Maxtor DiamondMax 10 300GB 3.5" IDE Ultra ATA133 Hard |
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>> Drive - OEM" |
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> well, Seagate has bought maxtor (is buying maxtor at the moment) - |
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> so they |
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> will be gone in a short while. |
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> And maxtor had some quality issues in the not -so-distant-past. |
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> I am not sure, if that are points for buying Maxtor.... |
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All companies have problems. I have had lots of issues with WD disks |
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(SATA) about 2 years ago that I had to RMA. Also, there are problems |
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with some WD SATA compatibility. I just had to RMA a brand new out |
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of the box Seagate SATA last month. It was DOA. I had some Fujitsu |
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SCSI disks I had to RMA a few years ago. I can't remember any Maxtor |
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disks failing, though there is one disk I had to RMA a year or so ago |
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and I cannot remember the make -- it could have been Maxtor. I have |
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not bought Maxtor in the last 2 years though. Recently, based on a |
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bunch of reviews of Hitachi disks, and some negatives on Seagate |
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performance (in a particular realm) I have been buying Hitachi, and |
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up to recently Seagate, based on their longer warranty. |
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Remember, all makers have issues and I am sure you can find people to |
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sing the praises as well as damn any of the disk makers. |
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Chad |
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