Great-grandparent was a (lame) joke made in jest. Grandparent was a flame against the post.
Hence the troll mod. Heavy handed if you ask me, but he was AC. So who cares?
Yes, sorry. We had more Maxtors returned relatively to the others. We actually sold more seagate HDDs, but Maxtors at the time were that much less reliable. They tended to come in bad batches aswell. So sometimes you'd get a shipment and have to return many more than other times.
This is several years ago though, so it could all be different.
I used to work for a company making Desktops for home users, 5 years ago. At the time we would probably get around 30 faulty drives a month returned. Of these the huge majority were maxtor. We would get the occasional Seagate and IBM. This is pretty anecdotal considering they were only in sub $2k machines, but we started avoiding Maxtor drives which didn't have a long warranty.
Oh and the WD drives I have bought recently have all had 5 year warranties.
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Great-grandparent was a (lame) joke made in jest. Grandparent was a flame against the post. Hence the troll mod. Heavy handed if you ask me, but he was AC. So who cares?
Yes, sorry. We had more Maxtors returned relatively to the others. We actually sold more seagate HDDs, but Maxtors at the time were that much less reliable. They tended to come in bad batches aswell. So sometimes you'd get a shipment and have to return many more than other times. This is several years ago though, so it could all be different.
I used to work for a company making Desktops for home users, 5 years ago. At the time we would probably get around 30 faulty drives a month returned. Of these the huge majority were maxtor. We would get the occasional Seagate and IBM. This is pretty anecdotal considering they were only in sub $2k machines, but we started avoiding Maxtor drives which didn't have a long warranty.
Oh and the WD drives I have bought recently have all had 5 year warranties.