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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > > CentOS mailing list > > CentOS at centos.org > > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > > 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