Getting that new hardware itch...

[Bruce Marshall]

On Saturday 24 December 2005 00:41, Ronnie Gauthier wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Dec 2005 10:58:34 -0500
>
> Bruce Marshall <bmarsh at bmarsh.com> wrote:
> > On Thursday 22 December 2005 23:05, Kurt Wall wrote:
> > > > cpu : 2 Ghz Athlon 64 939
> > > > Motherboard : ASUS A8N-SLI - not sure which one, regular, premium, or
> > > > deluxe Disk : 2x250 Gb Western SATA
> > >
> > > I'd go for Seagate drives. They're the ones we use at work in our
> > > storage blades. I'd go with Maxtor before Western Digital.
> >
> > I'd go for Seagate too....   I had a Maxtor SATA drive go bad a few
> > months ago.  Was only 6 months old.  It's the only drive I've ever had go
> > bad in 24 years of PC use.
>
> Hopefully Maxtors will get better now that Seagate aquiried them on
> Wednesday.

Or worse....   They may start selling Maxtor drives with a Seagate name on 
them.

Maytag bought Amana and just put the Maytag name on the outside of some of 
their appliances.