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From: hpa@zytor.com (H. Peter Anvin)
Subject: Re: Good news / bad news - The joys of RAID
Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 19:10:45 +0000 (UTC)
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Followup to:  <Pine.LNX.4.44.0411201238320.19120-100000@coffee.psychology.mcmaster.ca>
By author:    Mark Hahn <hahn@physics.mcmaster.ca>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.raid
>
> > 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.
> 

In my experience, that is bullshit.  Maxtor competes on price using
inferior products.  I bought two Maxtor drives, both of them failed
within 13 months.  That was my first attempt at trying Maxtor again
after taking them off my sh*tlist from last time.

	-hpa