Maxtor hard drives... any good?
I used to swear by Maxtor IDE hard drives. I have never had a problem with mine, and I see very little, if any, have problems in the shop where I work. I'm at the point where I want to buy a bigger one, but now I noticed since they bought out Quantum, they are using the old Quantum design and slapping the Maxtor name on it. For the most part, Quantums used to be junk, so I'm hesitant. Do they still manufacture true Maxtor drives, and if so, how do you tell the difference without opening the box? Is it time to go with Western Digital? We put WD drives in a lot of our builds, and see very little failure rates (but again, not as low as I used to see with pre-Quantum Maxtor drives). I will not buy either Seagate or IBM, these two have the highest failure rate I've seen, so it's either Maxtor or Quantum. Any thoughts? I'd like to get an ATA-100 60/80GB 7200 rpm.
/|rokh