Molle Bestefich wrote:

Christian Pernegger wrote:

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Anything specific wrong with the Maxtors?

No.  I've used Maxtor for a long time and I'm generally happy with them.

They break now and then, but their online warranty system is great.
I've also been treated kindly by their help desk - talked to a cute
gal from Maxtor in Ireland over the phone just yesterday ;-).

Then again, they've just been acquired by Seagate, or so, so things
may change for the worse, who knows.

I'd watch out regarding the Western Digital disks, apparently they
have a bad habit of turning themselves off when used in RAID mode, for
some reason:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.device-mapper.devel/1980/

I have exactly the opposite experience.  More than 50% of Maxtor drives 
fail inside 18 months; WDs seem to be really solid.

	-hpa