[TriLUG] Hard drive recovery

[Ed Hill]

On Sat, 2005-08-27 at 18:04 -0400, Richard Ryder wrote:
> 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.

Yes, and I know of another group that experienced this problem.  Maxtor
apparently made a few models of 250GB ATA/SATA drives that ran very hot.
If you used the drives continuously, many died within (or shortly after)
their 1yr warranty period.

Ed

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