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Gary Smith
This might sound like an odd question. For my business we run 50 pc's
that consists of many off of the shelf boxes as well as a bunch of
home grown ones. Many of them are Win2K or Linux server.
At the begining of this year we decided to upgrade some of these
machines. From a hardware perspective it mean adding some additional
ram and replacing / upgrading some of the hard drives. When we bought
many of the machines we purchased the better drives (20gb or 40gb
drive which were $400 to $500 at the time - 3 years ago).
So recently we started to purchase some replacement drives. We
replaced many of the 20's with Maxtor 40's. Some had the 3 year
warranty others had the one. We didn't notice the warranty because we
bought 20 of them at one time.
of the 12 1 year warranty drives 2 of them still operate correctly. I
found that heat seemed to be the number one culprit (even though the
cases stay under 75 deg the drives are still burning to the touch).
So the title begs the question... The quality of these drives seem so
poor that they need to be replaced after one year. I'm not saying
that it's a Maxtor issue as we have had similar problems with other
manufacturers.
My primary AD controller for my network, which was upgraded to Win2K
from NT 4 has the same mirrored 5gb IDE's in it that I started with.
I think I bought those 7 years ago.
Over time I expected that quality would improve but it seems that just
the opposite has happend.
Just thought I would share my HD upgrade experience.
Gary Smith
that consists of many off of the shelf boxes as well as a bunch of
home grown ones. Many of them are Win2K or Linux server.
At the begining of this year we decided to upgrade some of these
machines. From a hardware perspective it mean adding some additional
ram and replacing / upgrading some of the hard drives. When we bought
many of the machines we purchased the better drives (20gb or 40gb
drive which were $400 to $500 at the time - 3 years ago).
So recently we started to purchase some replacement drives. We
replaced many of the 20's with Maxtor 40's. Some had the 3 year
warranty others had the one. We didn't notice the warranty because we
bought 20 of them at one time.
of the 12 1 year warranty drives 2 of them still operate correctly. I
found that heat seemed to be the number one culprit (even though the
cases stay under 75 deg the drives are still burning to the touch).
So the title begs the question... The quality of these drives seem so
poor that they need to be replaced after one year. I'm not saying
that it's a Maxtor issue as we have had similar problems with other
manufacturers.
My primary AD controller for my network, which was upgraded to Win2K
from NT 4 has the same mirrored 5gb IDE's in it that I started with.
I think I bought those 7 years ago.
Over time I expected that quality would improve but it seems that just
the opposite has happend.
Just thought I would share my HD upgrade experience.
Gary Smith