From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 14 13:19:40 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ADF0D37B401 for ; Fri, 14 Feb 2003 13:19:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailhost.det2.ameritech.net (mailhost1-sfldmi.sfldmi.ameritech.net [206.141.193.105]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 25F3C444A1 for ; Fri, 14 Feb 2003 13:17:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dbailey27@ameritech.net) Received: from ameritech.net ([67.38.15.139]) by mailhost.det2.ameritech.net (InterMail vM.4.01.02.17 201-229-119) with ESMTP id <20030214211712.PWDD8853.mailhost.det2.ameritech.net@ameritech.net>; Fri, 14 Feb 2003 16:17:12 -0500 Message-ID: <3E4D5CB0.9080007@ameritech.net> Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 16:16:32 -0500 From: northern snowfall User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS sun4u; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020518 Netscape6/6.2.3 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Henrik W Lund Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Hard error?? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Anyway, it seems like I have just got to get myself a new drive. On > that note, has anybody got any idea what I should go for? Any vendors > whose drives do NOT cave in after half a year? ;) I choose Maxtor for several reasons. First off, I've been using Maxtor disks the most since I started out in computers and haven't had one fail yet (running every OS i've tested). Now that I'm alittle more experienced, I use Maxtor because of its standing credibility with me, and, because the Chairman of the T13[1] (technical committee for ATA[-ATAPI] development) is from Maxtor Corporation. They are most likely to want to adhere to a published specification (along with other T13 members), rather than develop chipsets that are rushed to keep up with a $25 billion a year industry. Don [1] T13 technical committee http://www.t13.org/ > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message