From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: DragonK Subject: Re: a Maxtor story Date: Sat, 05 Jun 2004 19:32:04 +0300 Sender: linux-admin-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: References: <40BEB0E7.306@hosttuls.com> <40BF9881.7010402@hosttuls.com> <20040605101558.GA2638@lists.notified.de> <40C1F076.3090708@teamsearchmr.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Return-path: In-Reply-To: <40C1F076.3090708@teamsearchmr.co.uk> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed delsp=yes" To: linux-admin@vger.kernel.org Hello, I have a Maxtor 6E040L0 40G and it's working perfectly. You guys are getting me worried...what's the medium time until failure? I have it for almost a year now and never had problems with it. On Sat, 05 Jun 2004 17:10:30 +0100, Ben Potter wrote: > > Unfortunately it is not just the 120Gb Maxtor hard drives - over a > period of about 12 months I bought 22 Maxtor hard drives, of these 14 > have now failed. Almost exactly the same problem as markus, In my case, > extreme slowdown - followed by sudden failure. > > The majority of these disks were the slimline models (never again!), but > there was at least one normal(?) sized hard drive. The capacity ranged > from 30 Gb to 120Gb > > Needless to say, after replacing the lot with IBM deskstars, I have not > had a single disk failure (to date) and will not be buying Maxtor disks > again. > > Thankfully, I also have a highly paranoid backup system - and did not > lose any data, and am now running the smart daemon tools on all the > critical machines. > > Just my 2 pence > Ben Potter --------------------------------------------------------------- Incearca acum noul sistem de dating oferit de portalul acasa.ro