Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!mips!pacbell.com!news.arc.nasa.gov!ads.com!potomac.ads.com!jtn From: jtn@potomac.ads.com (John T. Nelson) Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux Subject: Re: AUX and hard drives Message-ID: <1991Jun20.141234.9419@potomac.ads.com> Date: 20 Jun 91 14:12:34 GMT References: <1991Jun18.155914.24331@athena.mit.edu> <1991Jun20.120430.13058@athena.mit.edu> Organization: Advanced Decision Systems, Arlington, VA Lines: 31 In article <1991Jun20.120430.13058@athena.mit.edu> sorensen@athena.mit.edu (Alma G. Sorensen) writes: >Thanks to all who responded. > >One of my respondents warned me strongly away from Maxtor drives, >recounting some bad experiences. > >Is this universal experience? APS has a great deal on the Maxtor 340 MB >(only $1189 external), that I am tempted... The sour grapes concerning Maxtor amazes me. In the past I've heard nothing but good things about Maxtor. NeXT Computers used them exclusively (at least when the machine was introduced). Has something changed over at Maxtor? Corner-cutting? =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= ORGANIZATION: BLETCH (Bletcherous League of Evil Twisted Computer Hackers) UUCP: kzin!speaker@mimsy.umd.edu INTERNET: jtn@potomac.ads.com SPOKEN: Dark Hacker PHONE: (703) 243-1611 FAVORITE MAGAZINE: Midnight Engineer TWISTED DIABOLICAL LAUGH: Mwahh ah ha ha hah ha ha ha! The Mythos of Dark Hacker: "Controlled by the sinister and shadowy "suits" Dark Hacker now employs the tools of computer science to free himself from the suit's will. By day he is a lackey... but at night when the city sleeps he becomes.... DARK HACKER!" =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=