Exactly, I have fought random reboots on XP since day one with VIA/AMD/GeForce/XP. I NEVER had problems with my 2K install with Via 4in1 4.32 and Nvidia 23.11.The most stable I have been under XP is with VIA 4in1 4.38 and Nvidia 29.42 . Other than that, I love my AMD RAID Box. =)
I own a computer repair/retail store. I have given up on WD several times. We have mainly used Maxtor for the last several years. I have had 2 Maxtor drives die in 5 years. I have replaced more WD drives for several 3rd party warranty companies than I could count. If one of the warranty companies call and sends a computer through our doors, (especially if it is black with a blue logo silkscreened on the front) and it has a WD drive inside, it's a 90% bet that the drive has developed bad sectors. I have enough dead 4.3gb Caviar drives to build a wall across the front of our shop.
We have recently been using the new Maxtor/Quantum drives (Qaxtor I guess) and have not had any returns. These new drives look like a Quantum, but have a Maxtor label. I was a little hesitant at first to use them. However, I wanted to test the new drives and I needed a new server, so I built myself a new box consisting of dual 1800 Athlon MP (Tyan Tiger MP), 1GB Mushkin PC2100 DDR, Promise Supertrak SX6000 and FastTrak100,and 8 Maxtor 80GB drives. 6 drives are in RAID 5 (data) and 2 are in RAID 1 (OS installation). So far I have had no problems, other than gasping over the speed of this beast, but only time will tell.
Just my 2cents. =)
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Exactly, I have fought random reboots on XP since day one with VIA/AMD/GeForce/XP. I NEVER had problems with my 2K install with Via 4in1 4.32 and Nvidia 23.11 .The most stable I have been under XP is with VIA 4in1 4.38 and Nvidia 29.42 . Other than that, I love my AMD RAID Box. =)
I own a computer repair/retail store. I have given up on WD several times. We have mainly used Maxtor for the last several years. I have had 2 Maxtor drives die in 5 years. I have replaced more WD drives for several 3rd party warranty companies than I could count. If one of the warranty companies call and sends a computer through our doors, (especially if it is black with a blue logo silkscreened on the front) and it has a WD drive inside, it's a 90% bet that the drive has developed bad sectors. I have enough dead 4.3gb Caviar drives to build a wall across the front of our shop. We have recently been using the new Maxtor/Quantum drives (Qaxtor I guess) and have not had any returns. These new drives look like a Quantum, but have a Maxtor label. I was a little hesitant at first to use them. However, I wanted to test the new drives and I needed a new server, so I built myself a new box consisting of dual 1800 Athlon MP (Tyan Tiger MP), 1GB Mushkin PC2100 DDR, Promise Supertrak SX6000 and FastTrak100,and 8 Maxtor 80GB drives. 6 drives are in RAID 5 (data) and 2 are in RAID 1 (OS installation). So far I have had no problems, other than gasping over the speed of this beast, but only time will tell. Just my 2cents. =)