From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: berk walker Subject: Re: Good news / bad news - The joys of RAID Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2004 20:01:34 -0500 Message-ID: <419FE8EE.40505@verizon.net> 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 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! >> >> > >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. > >- >To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in >the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org >More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > > >