On Wed, 2005-09-14 at 10:30 -0700, Steven Vishoot wrote:
my initial reaction is one that favors my bias against Maxtor drives which would say to ditch the drive now.
man hdparm
man smartctl (though I would recommend hdparm as an easier interface)
Craig
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hello Craig,
why the bias against maxtor? in all the times i have had maxtor i have not had any problems. I thought western digital had the problems with hard ware slapping. where the read/write head would contact the platter and that was it for the drive, but that was many years ago. Have they cleaned up their act or should i say their drives. I will not touch IBM/Hiatchi i have had tooooooooooooooooooo many problems. right now it would be hard to convince the wife to spend money on the computer when i dont have a job now. :-(
---- my experiences with Maxtor are anecdotal and not numerically significant so I wouldn't presume that everyone else has the same impressions about Maxtor quality/reliability that I have. Thus you shouldn't draw any inference that my impressions are anything more than personal impressions.
I had great experiences with IBM Deskstar and now that they are owned by Hitachi, I haven't seen much in terms of changes. I have always liked WD stuff too. Again, this is nothing more than a personal experiences and not statistically significant.
You should concentrate on seeing if you hard drive issues are surmountable if you can't afford a new drive.
Craig