On Tue, Jun 29 at 13:59, Ricky Beam wrote:

Maxtor has a perminant entry on my shitlist following their 60% failure
rate with their SATA drives (in bulk.)  And seeing how Dell no longer
builds systems with Maxtor drives adds weight to my listing :-) (Unless
they are getting a damn good OEM deal from WD, I don't think cost was why
they switched.  Even Tivo switched to WD after the Maxtor/Quantum merge.)

There's always a group of people who have shitlisted brand X due to
the way something failed, this is especially common in disk drives.

I'm sorry you had the problems, but they're not indicitive of Maxtor
as a whole, or we wouldn't be in business at all.  I'm not sure how
our account with Tivo looks, but last I heard we were still the #1
supplier of drives into settop boxes.

I do think our new MaxLine III is a pretty hot drive, and it supports
NCQ, (with big performance gains in server-type applications) so as
soon as Jeff can get the ahci driver into the kernel...

--eric

PS: If you have issues in the future, feel free to contact me at
work... firstname_lastname@maxtor.com, and I'll do what I can to try
to help.


-- 
Eric D. Mudama
edmudama@mail.bounceswoosh.org