Quoting Hugo Vanwoerkom <hvw59601@care2.com>:
Hi, If you have an 80GB ATA disk that you think is terrific, could you post it? Checking http://www.storagereview.com/ is not conclusive regarding MTTF. My current Maxtor 6Y080P0 is a year and a half old, doing good. My SAMSUNG SP0802N is 6 months old and failing. Thanks! H
Funny you should ask... I just had my desktop's Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9 die on me the other day. :( Since it was about two months old, I'm still trying to figure out what went wrong. Maybe it was foolish and maybe I'll regret it but I did buy another Maxtor (80gig 6l080P0 ATA/133). I purchased the new drive from newegg.com; great price and extremely fast delivery. I didn't buy a larger capacity drive because I don't have a need for a lot of storage on my desktop and the price was right = cheap! (w/ a dvd burner... who needs more drive space on a desktop?). Sid installed quickly and smoothly onto the new drive (it's always fun to install Debian). Going on one and a half days running - so far so good. :) k l u r t
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