From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Greaves Subject: Re: Good news / bad news - The joys of RAID Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2004 19:40:39 +0000 Message-ID: <419F9DB7.7080600@dgreaves.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Mark Hahn Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids Mark Hahn wrote: >>Never buy Maxtor drives again! >> >> > >you imply that Maxtor drives are somehow inherently flawed. >can you explain why you think millions of people/companies >are naive idiots for continuing to buy Maxtor disks? > >this sort of thing is just not plausible: Maxtor competes >with the other top-tier disk vendors with similar products >and prices and reliability. yes, if you buy a 1-year disk, >you can expect it to have been less carefully tested, possibly >be of lower-end design and reliability, and to have been handle >more poorly by the supply chain. thankfully, you don't have >to buy 1-year disks any more. > >read the specs. make sure your supply chain knows how to >handle disks. make sure your disks are mounted correctly, >both mechanically and with enough airflow. use raid and >some form of archiving/backups. don't get hung up on which >of the 4-5 top-tier vendors makes your disk. > > > Yeah, you're right. Of course - the fact that 2 of *my* 6 Maxtor 250Gb SATA drives (3 year warranty) date stamped at various times in 2004 have failed is coincidence and should, of course, be expected with a MTBF of millions of hours. Oh, please note I'm not Robin - that must be a coincidence too :) Personally I'm waiting for the revelation that they are recycled IBM Deskstar 70's ;) I take your point about supply chain though - anything that's shipped by courier is suspect. David