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Disk drive life depends on . . . luck

Disk drive life depends on . . . luckInteresting Article!!I guess I just have bad luck with drives!!Ah yes,I remember when I came to work one day to find 7 failed drives (out of an array of 20). I also found out that these drives were recalled by the manufacturer....

Tags: Branding, software, hardware, Maxtors, Maxtor Corp., Seagate Technology LLC, brand, disk drive, Maxtor Drive, hard drive, disk, Disk Drive Life

Discussion threads 2007-07-05

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Who makes the best hard drives?

Who makes the best hard drives?I cannot think of a time where a blogger ....... at zdnet has spread more bunk about an industry then you have with your vendetta against disk drive manufacturers. For the most part there are very few issues with disk drive reliability. Even...

Tags: Storage, hard drive, Seagate Technology LLC, Maxtor Corp., Western Digital Corp.

Discussion threads 2007-07-11

Speed up your PC - Fit a 10,000 RPM system drive

Speed up your PC - Fit a 10,000 RPM system driveWhere do you get your math?How do smaller drives at higher RPM compare to larger drives at lower RPM?Last I checked, overall performance of a 72 or 36 GB Raptor even in RAID 0 was nill compared to pulling from...

Tags: Desktops, CPU, Memory Speed, RPM, Raptor, PC, hard drive

Discussion threads 2007-02-27

Carbon nanotubes could allow for huge increases in storage

Carbon nanotubes could allow for huge increases in storageOk, I can use a 5 TB hard drive right about nowI want this now!Reliability?Anyone have a subjective feeling that hard drives are less reliable now than they were when their capacities were smaller?Last year we had several maxtor diamond max 9s...

Tags: Nanotechnology, carbon nanotube, nanotube, storage

Discussion threads 2006-07-02

PC shipments up, but Dell loses ground

PC shipments up, but Dell loses groundNo wonder when...Dell outsources all their support to India, no offence but their customer service has sharply declined in the last few years ever since they outsourced everything. I remember my first pc from them back in 96 when Pentium 2s where king,...

Tags: Desktops, PC, Dell Computer Corp., Intel Corp.

Discussion threads 2006-04-19

Drive maker Maxtor to ax hundreds of jobs

Drive maker Maxtor to ax hundreds of jobsGlobal economyWe are in the Global economy, all of the people who are alwasy chanting how wonderful linux is try to compete against a admin in a 3rd world country making $10,000 a year.You wanted some competition with MS now deal with it...

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, job, Maxtor Corp., Maxtor Drive

Discussion threads 2004-07-02