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["Greg Freemyer" <greg.freemyer@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 2/23/07, Doug McGarrett <dmcgarrett@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Friday 23 February 2007 01:48, John Andersen wrote:
> > On Thursday 22 February 2007, Kai Ponte wrote:
> > > I just bought some maxtor 320 GB thingy at fry's. I have no idea what
> > > warranty it has.
> >
> > Maxtor is Seagate's "Crap" line IMHO.  I don't think
> > the maxtor label carries 5 years warranty.
> >
> > --
> > _____________________________________
> > John Andersen
> I wish I knew how many Maxtor drives I've thrown out, or seen thrown out!
> And I wasn't even in IT!  I've had fairly decent luck with IBM drives, altho
> they're not made by IBM anymore--one of the Japanese companies makes
> them--I forget who.  Anyway, treat your Maxtor tenderly.  From what I've
> read--most recently here, BTW--heat is your worst enemy, so one of these
> drive-cooler fans that mounts right under the drive might be worth buying.

IBM Laptop drives are now Hitachi.  Not sure about normal size drives.

RE: Heat
The Google white paper says they looked for a correlation between
failure and heat.  To their surprise they could not find one.

Greg
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Greg Freemyer
The Norcross Group
Forensics for the 21st Century
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