Not long ago I was asked about a deal on a hard drive. It was a Maxtor. Of course I said run far, far away and get ye to ye Western Digital display.
Back in the day when I started working help desk, I remember the failure rate on the Maxtor Big Foot drive. Anyone remember that steaming pile of crap? I was seeing 10 or more those a day.
For those of you that aren’t familiar with the high quality of Maxtor drives, please allow me to show you Exibit A:
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October 2nd, 2006 at 11:14 am
Ah the bigfoot.
HDD the size of a CD-ROM, IIRC?
We used to sell a ton of those bad(dly built) boys when i worked for a System Integrator/VAR
I was purchasing manager. Can’t recall the specifics, but they sure gave some good deals on Big foots.
October 2nd, 2006 at 11:21 am
probably to get rid of them because they were horrible drives that lasted about as long as a 5/14″ floppy disk under a magnet in a hot car.