On Wed, 2005-06-08 at 11:56 -0700, Harry Mangalam wrote:

Dan Stromberg who has been posting here recently can speak to the 
viability/reliability of the right Maxtor disks to use, but the 3ware tech 
said that the WD SD series disks were very reliable and fast.

I have a writeup of the 3ware+maxtor SATA mess we just got a refund on
at:

http://dcs.nac.uci.edu/~strombrg/3ware-maxtor-notes.html

...but in short, we never determined definitively if the hardware
problems (there were software problems too) were due to the RAID
controllers or the disks.  The integrator we were working with was
blaming the disks, but sometimes we'd get repeated failures with
different disks in the same slot of a given RAID controller.