[mythtv-users] The Bigger... Disk contest, Fall 2007 edition

[Brian Wood]

Jay R. Ashworth wrote:

>> During that interval, I also had a Maxtor in a desktop that simply
>> spun 99% of the time and was in active use a few minutes a day, hence
>> it moved its head only a few minutes a day.  It died, TOO, just
>> sitting there spinning, with the click of death, so while duty cycle
>> certainly -accelerated- the failures -I- saw, in -my- environment, it
>> wasn't the whole story; the baseline failure rate with almost zero use
>> was still so fast that the drives failed within their first year or
>> two of operation.  I won't use Maxtors again in anything.  I currently
>> have -far- more Seagates in service than I ever had Maxtors, and I've
>> never had one fail.  Yes, there have since been various mergers of
>> companies and product lines; in particular, some "Seagate" drives are
>> now made by what used to be Maxtor.
> 
> Citation, please?

Not sure what this means, but I recently bought a Maxtor external 500GB
drive as it was on sale cheap. I just wanted the drive itself and when I
pulled it out of the "Maxtor" case is was a Seagate drive inside.

Also:

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1904471,00.asp

beww