[TriLUG] Hard drive recovery

[Richard Ryder]

I've had very similar experiences with the Maxtor 250GB SATA drives.  We ended
up replacing about 32 of them with Seagates I think just to get the a little
more peace of mind.  Their failure rate was very, very high.

Rich

Quoting James Brigman <jbrigman at nc.rr.com>:


> How many drives total are you running, and how were you getting 11 250GB
> drives of ANY brand to fail? Did you fire the person who built the
> system?
>
> Sounds like heads getting too hot. On the drives, I mean.
>
> JKB
>
> On Sat, 2005-08-27 at 13:49 -0400, Ed Hill wrote:
> > On Sat, 2005-08-27 at 13:35 -0400, James Brigman wrote:
> > <testimonial type="customer">
> >
> > We had 11 250GB Maxtors (roughly 50/50 mix of SATA/PATA) die in the last
> > year -- all within the 1-yr warranty period.  It took many phone calls
> > and a bunch of maddening Maxtor mistakes (eg. sent us a box for shipping
> > just one drive when we 8 at that point... *sigh*) over a period of ~3
> > months but we did eventually get all the replacements.
> >
> > </testimonial>
> >
> > And always read the fine print!  If you return drives in a non-
> > certified shipping container (even though its already dead), your
> > warranty is *void* and you don't get a replacement.
> >
> > Ed
> >
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