Should I get an A64?!?

BeerCheeze · Posted: Thu, 08 Jul 2004 15:04:20 Post Subject:

Gack... I have been soooo unimpressed with any Maxtor I have ever had. They have been reliable, but slow as dirt!

**Doctor Feelgood** · Posted: Thu, 08 Jul 2004 15:06:48 Post Subject:

I have had two Maxtor's die in the past 3 months... Sad

knight0334 · Posted: Thu, 08 Jul 2004 16:05:41 Post Subject:

Everyone has their own experiences with HDDs.. I cant stand IBM and Seagate. ....never a problem with Maxtor or WD.

Hellfire · Rated XXX Joined: 05 Aug 2003 Posts: 3473

My maxtors have usually lasted 3 - 4 years before going out. Usually end up replacing them with larger drives before they go out. Never had an issue with speed on them, always seem to get great performance.

BeerCheeze · Posted: Thu, 08 Jul 2004 17:28:43 Post Subject:

True Knight... Other than those DeathStars IBM made, I have had such outstanding luck with them it's not funny. Never had an issue with Seagate, but I think I've only used their SCSI drives.

Maxtor, never a problem, just slow. WD..... ooooo I have stories.... much worse than the DeathStars ever where... in one smaller shop I worked in we would sell WD drives in the systems we had built for our clients. We had to stop when we started getting close to a 50% failure ratio in the first 6 months on drives!! Yikes

I haven't touched a WD since then. (But I've considered their Raptor drives)

**Doctor Feelgood** · Posted: Thu, 08 Jul 2004 21:57:36 Post Subject:

I just saw something that makes this tough...

http://www.slickdeals.net/forums/showthread.php?t=29200

AMD64 3200+ Asus K8V SE Deluxe Mobo Combo with cooler - $192 shipped straight from AMD

Yikes

I could sell my XP chips and board and about cover that!!

At newegg, the board is $118 and the chip is $270!!

BeerCheeze · Posted: Fri, 09 Jul 2004 10:52:09 Post Subject:

**Doctor Feelgood** · Posted: Fri, 09 Jul 2004 11:01:01 Post Subject:

Deal died yesterday... browse to the end of the thread and you'll see. I got registered before it died, but didn't get in on it. I see many people on slickdeals and anandtech apparently got in!! If only I had seen this when it was brand new last week!! Grr...

Bang Head

BeerCheeze · Posted: Fri, 09 Jul 2004 11:35:00 Post Subject:

Yea, I saw that... frigg'n sucks!