Getting that new hardware itch...

[Collins Richey]

On 12/23/05, Ronnie Gauthier <ronnieg at chartermi.net> 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.
>

It's amazing how these things go. I've never had any trouble with
Maxtor drives. Even with Western Digital, a lot of folks (including
our company) have very good results.


--
Collins Richey
      Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code ... If you write
      the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not
      smart enough to debug it.
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