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From: jjw7384@ultb.isc.rit.edu (Jeff Wasilko)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Opinions on La Cie hard disks??
Message-ID: <2337@ultb.isc.rit.edu>
Date: 6 Mar 90 02:56:26 GMT
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In article <3057@draken.nada.kth.se> d88-jwa@nada.kth.se (Jon W{tte) writes:
>In article <315@spt.entity.com> mdc@spt.UUCP (Marty Connor) writes:
>
>>To the issue at hand.  The drive I am returning has a MaxStor
>>mechanism (figure that one out).  I am told that what happened at
>
>>    1. Quantum
>>    2. Connor
>>    3. Seagate
>
>Maxtor drives have a very good name by me. So has NEC, and
>possible Vertex. Sony is like Sony is - mass produced, decent
>quality but not more.
>
>Anyone have more experiences in hard drives (not just for the mac)

This past summer the company I co-oped with used Maxstor drives in
their equipment (~70 meg, 330 meg and 660 meg) and I was amazed at the
failure rate.
 
In the 6 months that I was there, I probably saw 4 330/660 meg and 2 ~70
meg drives fail. These drives had been in service from 1 day to 1 year,
and either failed with media failure/many bad blocks or a complete
failure to spin up. Field Service engineers told me about many more
failures in the field.
 
The company was sending a demo system to Tokyo and we were so paranoid
about failure that we equiped the system with 2 backup disks for the two
primary disks. One of the primary disks failed while I was configuring
the system.
 
They were in the process of switching to Imprimis drives. IMHO, the
Imprimis drives were designed better, built better and more
trouble-free.
 
The drives were being used in Sun 3 series and VMEbus applications and
were ESDI drives, but I would assume that the same would hold true for
the SCSI interface drives.
 
Disclaimer:
I'm only relaying what I saw.
 
Jeff

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