OT: Is any hard disk brand better/worse than the others?

Tue Dec 2 14:30:55 UTC 2008

On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 08:42:17PM -0500, Howard Gibson wrote:
> On Mon, 1 Dec 2008 12:38:47 -0500
> lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org (Lennart Sorensen) wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 11:16:46AM -0500, James Knott wrote:
> > > Curious.  I've been running Maxtor for years with no problems.
> > 
> > Maxtor DiamondPlus8 40GB drives.  They will fail.  All of them, and all
> > catastrophicly.
> > 
> > So that's a few years ago, but still. :)
> 
>    I have a Maxtor D740X-6L running on my continuously-on computer since March_2002. No problems so far.   

These are 6E040L0510214 and similar.  Seemed to be a problem model.  I
have used maxtors before (like a 213MB) and that was fine.

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Len Sorensen
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