Re: Which hard drive brand ?

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From: Rachel Polanskis
Date: Sat, 29 Jun 1996 00:00

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In article <4r3at2$5mn@godzilla.zeta.org.au>,
	nick@zeta.org.au (Nick Andrew) writes:
> In <31D3FF4D.36FC19A9@instanet.com> Glen Duncan <gduncan@instanet.com> writes:
> 
>>DON'T BUY SEACRATE! Quantum and maxtor make fine drives. Go with one of
>>those. (BTW: Seagate recently bought out Conner so expect their quality
>>to go way down.)
> 
> I own several Seagate drives (size 600M to 4.2G) and only had 1 fail in
> the last 3 years. That was a 1G SCSI (the first I bought) and I had a
> replacement in my hand 24 hours later (which is still working).

The Maxtor 71240AV is a worry.
I have personally had one of these die in a big way on me.
Since then I have heard of several Maxtor 71240AVs head crashing 
and 2 from other linux users.

I have a Maxtor 7540AV that has not caused any problems however and it is 
over 2 years old.

My main disk is now a Quantum Atlas 4.3 GB SCSI disk, and so far I have 
had no problems....

rachel
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From: rachel@juno.virago.org.au (Rachel Polanskis)
Subject: Re: Which hard drive brand ?
Date: 1996/06/29
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