I have two Quantum Fireballs that have never given me any problems -  one a
4.3GB, the other a 12.7GB.  I have used a Maxtor ESDI drive which
continuouly lost sectors over a period of three years.  I also purchased two
Maxtor 540MB drives when they were popular.  The first one failed in the
first month.  I sent it back and the replacement lasted less than a week.
The third one lasted for the remaining two years that I used them.  It is a
good thing that Maxtor has a "no-quibble" policy given that only one out of
three drives is reliable.  Consider this.  Every time you loose a drive, you
loose data.  How important is that to you?  It is for these reasons that I
do not recommend Maxtor drives to any of my clients.  I would stick with
reliable brands like Western Digital, IBM and Quantum.  Exeption, don't buy
the Quantum bigfoot series.  They are prone to early failures.  With disk
drives, you get what you pay for.  The disk drive is cheep compared to the
data written to it, not to mention the time required to reload all of your
software and reconfigure Windows to your liking.

Jerry Rasmussen
Rasmussen & Bucklin Associates
Coral Springs FL
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Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] Which HD (and a big thank you for helping with
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Personally, I prefer Maxtor.  I may get a few dissenters out there, but I
have had and installed several of these drives.  Recently I bought one that
came doa.  I called Maxtor, and the new drive is on the way pronto.  They
have a "No Quibble" policy about returns, and it's true.

However, I would stay away from Seagate.  My other recommendations would be
Fujitsu and WD (I have seen excellent performance from the Fujitsu's).  I
have heard nothing but horror stories about IBM drives, so I would
personally shy away from them.  Hope this helps.

Kyle


>From: Uzi Paz <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: [PCBUILD] Which HD (and a big thank you for helping with
>    motherboard)
>Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1999 00:33:35 +0300
>
>Now as to choosing the hard disk, I would go with typical UDMA hard
>disks 8.4 Gb, the faster ones (66Mhz) are too expensive for this
>purchase). In the past Seagate got bad reputation, and I could say that I
>would go only with IBM or WD, but I'm not sure that this is still valid.
>I can now choose between Seagate and WD, and initially I tend to go
>with WD, but wish to hear few more views.
>

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