Were the HDD manufactured a decade or more ago more reliable than
current offerings? I've never been sure if MTBF numbers are accurate
or useful . . .
ScottGee1
On 8/16/05, Bernard Frangoulis <lists@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >From my experience, I'll never use another Maxtor hard drive again.
>
> Same here, I have seen two external "One touch" Maxtor drives fail on
> me. Never again.
>
> I have two external LaCie Firewire drives (160 and 250Gb), I think
> the drives inside are Seagate. No problem so far (they are 2 years
> old approximlately), but beware! They do tend to run very hot in
> their metal enclosures. Now I only switch them on when I'm backing up
> to them, or retrieving backed up data from them.
>
> Bernard
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