Author: Sally Weltrop
Date: 22:11:30 10/24/01
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On October 24, 2001 at 17:38:54, Angrim wrote: >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. > EXACTLY my results too. WD are definitely low-quality, MAXTOR rules! Ed. choice as well. >I expect there are others who have had the opposite results. > >Angrim
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