hardware selection
Posted in Observations — by Don on 09/30/06

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:

Thank you. I have put my geek back in and you may now continue about your day.

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(2) comments
  • http://www.red-omega.com/blog John

    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.

  • db

    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.

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