Greg Freemyer wrote:
On 2/23/07, Doug McGarrett <dmcgarrett@optonline.net> 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
On Friday 23 February 2007 01:48, John Andersen wrote: 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 Heat is an issue for hard drives. I use removal hard drives and the housing has an internal fan. The fan stopped. I didn't know it and I went through two harddrives very quickly before replacing the fan. Drives do well within certain temperature limits but the MTBF goes down quickly when one exceeds the specifications as I see it. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org