Re: Good news / bad news - The joys of RAID

[berk walker <berk.walker@verizon.net>]

ALL of the Maxtor junk that I have sitting next to me were in factory 
packaging, and not likely to have been affected by either physical or 
electrical shock.

HE might have implied, I am saying it!  Why ask someone as you did in 
sentence #2?  Ask them - or yourself.

Of course, he probably missed the warranty statement to not run Linux.

Mark Hahn wrote:

>>Never buy Maxtor drives again!
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>
>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.
>
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