Author: Angrim
Date: 14:38:54 10/24/01
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On October 24, 2001 at 15:06:33, Roy Eassa wrote: >On October 24, 2001 at 15:01:21, Wayne Lowrance wrote: > >>On October 24, 2001 at 14:33:44, Roy Eassa wrote: >> >>>http://www.accessmicro.com/productinfo.php3?ProductId=HDPWDID60BB >>> >>>Shipping is under $10 ground in USA >>> >>>(For those who think poorly of Maxtor drives!) >> >>Thank you for this post. A poster was critical of Maxtor drives last week and >>said #1 was better (or words to that affect). Several of us asked who #1 was and >>the answer was..... well never mind, thats another thing. >>Thanks >>Wayne > > >Yeah, I was the originator of the Maxtor thread. Since Vince D. seemed to hate >Maxtors and dislike drives that spin slower than 7200 RPM, I figured maybe he'd >like this particular deal better. > >Personally, I've used many, many brands of hard drives since the mid-'80s and >every brand has had mostly good results and some failures (Micropolis was the >worst to me). In recent years, Maxtors have been great to me. I'm not an >expert on which brand is best. I do think the price listed here is very good >for this model, and offers a good alternative to the $150 80 GB Maxtor of last >week. Everyone seems to have different results with these. The last two WD brand drives that I bought are now paperweights, while the last two Maxtor brand hard drives(30gig, 7200rpm) that I bought haven't died yet despite my useing them for tablebase builds for months at a time. I expect there are others who have had the opposite results. Angrim
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