RE: [tlug] HDD Reliability

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Norman Diamond [mailto:ndiamond@example.com] 
> Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2004 8:39 AM
> To: Tokyo Linux Users Group
> Subject: Re: [tlug] HDD Reliability
> 
> 
> Josh Glover wrote:
> > Quoth Lyle (Hiroshi) Saxon
> >
> > > And - folks in TLUG - this is one
> > > of the things that infuriates me about the big bloody M - while 
> > > those... those... *******'s are raking in money hand over 
> fist, the 
> > > hardware manufacturers have been hurting.
> 
> Besides which, Microsoft is responsible for more destruction 
> of data on the hard disks of people who obeyed the 
> instructions, than failures by all of the hard disk 
> manufacturers put together.
> 
> > Also, companies like IBM have economies of scale, which makes it 
> > possible for them to maintain profitability (probably) on 
> > manufacturing and selling hard drives.
> 
> Is that why IBM sold their hard drive division to Hitachi?
> 
> Of course IBM deserved to be sued.  So does Toshiba.
> 
> (So does Maxtor, though I haven't personally seen any 
> evidence of defects in their design, only in their 
> documentation and support.  Maxtor attached two sets of 
> instructions with different jumpering instructions, and they 
> couldn't even tell me which set of instructions was correct.  
> I had to make a guess before the store's return policy 
> expired.  Fortunately I guessed right.  I didn't use the set 
> of instructions which would normally be used by most Maxtor 
> customers in Japan.)
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I use 3 Maxtor 250GB SATA drives with a 3ware Raid controller in my
Backupserver.  So far no problem yet.  Some magazines have given high marks
on reliability and performance for them - I think maxtor wants them to
compete with SCSI drives for the entry level server segment.