From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Robin Bowes Subject: Re: Good news / bad news - The joys of RAID Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 23:02:55 +0000 Message-ID: <41A3C19F.3000104@robinbowes.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: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids Mark Hahn wrote: >>When will you learn? :) > > > exactly - you can conclude absolutely nothing from two samples. > I read that mail as "I stopped buying Maxtor (for whatever reason) then tried them again and had an 100% failure rate (albeit with a small sample size) so have stopped buying them again" rather than "I bought two Maxtor drives that failed so Maxtor drives are shit". My own personal experience (I'm the OP in this thread) is that the 250GB SATA Maxtor Maxline II drives I have purchased have an unacceptable failure rate (something like 40% in 5 months) R. -- http://robinbowes.com