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Technology Stocks : Disk Drive Sector Discussion Forum -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Box-By-The-Riviera™ who wrote (1875)	12/21/1997 3:39:00 PM
From: Mark Adams	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 9256

I've never had a Maxtor drive fail on me, and I still have 2 5year old 120 meg drives running in a couple of computers. I've owned 8 drives up to their 4 gig version. They've always provided great tech support. 99% of the time I can get the info I need via fax or internet. I had one occasion where someone not quite familiar with IDE drives did a lowlevel format. Called tech support to find out if they had a utility to 'correctly' reformat the drive to fix it, and they said 'send it back, we will replace it'. Now, I've seen two Seagate drives (circa 1994, quality proabably has improved) which developed bearing noise 6 months into their lives. Won't buy a seagate drive, period. FWIW