On Sun, 24 Feb 2008, Steven Howes wrote: > > On 24 Feb 2008, at 15:55, sergio masci wrote: > > > 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! > > I had some maxtor disks i was fairly abusive to (hot swapping etc)... > had to remove ketchup on one occasion. Worked fine for years! But all this tells us is that maxtor drives worked for you. If you'd had a mix of drives, got them all from the same supplier and treated them all the same THEN you would be in a position to tell us which ones had more endurance. 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