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You know, you are absolutely correct.
I've sworn off Maxtor, because the last time I used them I went through three, and someone else was returning one. When I called Maxtor, they asked what they could do for me. I replied "Why replace the drive, of course. Oh, and with a Western Digital, this time". lol. Fortunately, I did find the receipt, and was able to do so on my own.
But, soon, WD wound up on my bad list as well, as every drive I had ended up failing. And not so long into it, either. So much for the addage "Hard drives usually dont fail after the first 30 days".
My Seagate has been solid so far. And, with the 5 year warranty, that makes it very appealing to me. But, having merged with Maxtor, I can only wonder how things will go. I've already seen that SG has cut the warranty to 3 years on some drives. And now with this issue, not only with the 1.5 but also the 1 TB drives, and knowing my great luck with drives, I have to reconsider my previous statements, and take your thoughts very seriously. Esp. since what you said makes a ton of sense.
Thanks for a reminder of what we should already know, but, dont necessarily.
Posted by: LegendsOfBatman   Posted on: 12/15/08 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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IMHO...  BitTwiddler | 12/04/08
Sad but seemingly true ...  George Mitchell | 12/05/08
Started going downhill with the Maxtor merger  Dr. John | 12/05/08
I concur  pgit | 12/08/08
others worse  waltmaine | 12/08/08
Drive companies change over time...  zackers | 12/13/08
Thanks  LegendsOfBatman | 12/15/08
RE: Seagate's DRM code ?  Brent R Brian | 12/04/08
Unbelievable...  jmiller1978 | 12/08/08
'senior engineer at a cloud storage company'  GuidingLight | 12/04/08
Que?  Patanjali | 12/05/08
Great little NAS box by he way  Patanjali | 12/05/08
Any company using SATA drive ....  bjbrock | 12/05/08
Just checked, have about 90 1TB with SD15 sad  terry flores | 12/05/08
Why Order more drives?  jakesty | 12/14/08
MADE IN CHINA  NotMSUser | 12/05/08
RE: Seagate's  larahs | 12/08/08
wouldn't expect anythingn less since Maxtor Merge  Morphyous | 12/08/08
Maxtor used to be better than Seagate  914four | 12/08/08
RE: Maxtor used to be better than Seagate  jmiller1978 | 12/08/08
Yes, they started going downhill...  914four | 12/08/08
RE: Maxtor used to be better than Seagate  Racer9x | 12/08/08
Yup, Maxtor wasn't as reliable as Seagate  V@... | 12/12/08
Yup, Maxtor wasn't as reliable as Seagate  Devillin | 12/30/08
Not just Seagate...  Narg | 12/08/08
Not just Seagate!  green alien | 12/09/08
RE: Seagate's  pppaulll | 12/08/08
RE: Seagate's  John_Doe69 | 12/08/08
RE: Seagate's  Harron | 12/09/08
RE: Seagate's  Old Timer 8080 | 12/12/08
PATA Seagate HDD 500GB  michaelleo@... | 12/12/08
Firmware fix may only mask the problem  zackers | 12/13/08
Uhh, they've issued a fix, Download the firmware.  jakesty | 12/14/08
what? they have? link please  confuxion | 12/31/08
Because customers have a right to know what's really going on  zackers | 01/22/09
Class action lawusit  Need1176 | 06/01/09
RE: Seagate's  scjimtanis@... | 08/31/09

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