Fwd: RE: Peoria Schools can't afford to replace stolencomput…

On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 18:19, M Rafiq wrote:
> Unfortunately yes, it is WD 120GB JB series also called special edition. My
> experience with Maxtor is different and Maxtor is number one choice of
> Compaq and I did not see so much problem with Maxtor based on my 15 years
> experience. I selected first time WD drive and now....Besides WD drive
> customer service is much ahead of it. Even their own system does not work
> when you call then or try to open RMA online...What else I can say?
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My experiences have me trusting the Western Digital drives much more
than Maxtor drives but we are all driven by the small amount of sampling
that we are allowed to do.

That Compaq chooses Maxtor (I don't know of the accuracy of this) would
encompass many economic realities that we might ignore if we were
choosing one drive for our own personal use.

My preferences have traditionally favored the IBM (now owned by Hitachi)
and the Western Digital over the Maxtor and Seagate brands but again,
that is more anecdotal - I probably haven't involved myself in the
selection of more than 100 hard drives in the past 3 years and much of
my experiences have been with designs that have long since been
discontinued and with SCSI type drives.

Craig