On Sun, 24 Feb 2008, Dario Greggio wrote: > Xiaofan Chen wrote: > > > Maxtor is now part of Seagate. Right I think they are killing Maxtor. > > Anyway, Seagate bought Maxtor to kill a competitor. > > I see, a pity then :-( > > I don't know when it happened, you can probably tell me. > I've seen that difference in uears from 1993 to, say 2001 or so. > Maxtor have been better throughout all this time, up to now. (I almost > stopped buying Seagate at then end of the 90s, except if a *very* good > price was out at the time) Seagate has a bad reputation amoung the public but a good one in the storage industry. The biggest problem with home users is that the majority are not aware how a highly engineered delicate piece of hardware should be treated. ESD what's that! Running HOT, must be designed to do that! Came shipped in a jiffy bad, must be ok or they wouldn't ship it that way! How many people take anti static precautions when installing a HD? Heck I've even heard storries of people connecting / disconnecting HDs with the power still on. And I've seen tech support guys walk across a 20m carpetted room with an unprotected HD, then place it on the floor, open up a machine and install it. What about letting the HD come up to room temperature before breaking the seal on the antistatic bag - what condensation problems. I know a specialist who swears by seagate but he insists they need to be treated with respect. I used to swear by IBM hard discs. They used to come shipped in special containers. Ran for several years without ANY problems. Then I started to receive them packed loose in bigger boxes with other items, then jiffy bags. I make it clear to my suppliers now that I will not accept discs shipped like this. I don't know what else we should expect though, from box shifters who's goal is to cut costs to the bone because we demand cheap hardware. Regards Sergio Masci -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist