Topic: Maxtor sucks

[nickgregory]

Lacie externals own your face.

agreed.  There is a reason why all telcos use lacie drives to back up their billing reocrds....I have been very happy with my Lacie externals, not a problem yet (knocking on wood)

Does Lacie actually make their own hard drives though? For some reason I thought of them as a company that was getting their drives from someone else and marketing them under their own name.

dont know, but luckily I havent had any issues with Lacie drives to date

[dnsacks]

Lacie externals own your face.

agreed.  There is a reason why all telcos use lacie drives to back up their billing reocrds....I have been very happy with my Lacie externals, not a problem yet (knocking on wood)

Does Lacie actually make their own hard drives though? For some reason I thought of them as a company that was getting their drives from someone else and marketing them under their own name.

My external lacie indicates through windows properties that it has a maxtor drive inside its enclosure

[Brian Skalinder]

IME, model selection within any brand makes a big difference.  I find the HDs designed specifically for business servers - as opposed to cheap-as-possible, purely consumer-oriented HDs - are far more reliable.  They typically cost a few bucks more, but IMO are worth it.

[nic]

Lacie externals own your face.

agreed.  There is a reason why all telcos use lacie drives to back up their billing reocrds....I

Verizon doesnt!

[jcrab66]

Does Lacie actually make their own hard drives though? For some reason I thought of them as a company that was getting their drives from someone else and marketing them under their own name.

no, lacie doesnt make their own. I am not sure whats in my 500 but one of my lacie 250's has a seagate drive in it and the other has a WD

[nickgregory]

Lacie externals own your face.

agreed.  There is a reason why all telcos use lacie drives to back up their billing reocrds....I

Verizon doesnt!

alright, let me be clearer, sprint and bellsouth do

[heath]

i use quantegy and avastor.  not 1 problem yet, and i've filled about 400 Quantegy drives in the past 2 years....

[lotusbudds]

IME, model selection within any brand makes a big difference.  I find the HDs designed specifically for business servers - as opposed to cheap-as-possible, purely consumer-oriented HDs - are far more reliable.  They typically cost a few bucks more, but IMO are worth it.

What he said. Also maintenence is crucial - defrag often (best weekly if heavy use), check for sector problems frequently, clean up unused files. Try to schedule this stuff to occur at night.

[lotusbudds]

Lacie externals own your face.

agreed.  There is a reason why all telcos use lacie drives to back up their billing reocrds....I

Verizon doesnt!

alright, let me be clearer, sprint and bellsouth do

And it is all backed up to a SAN, right so that failure of a drive results in no data loss and quick recovery? I have never heard of Lacie being used in enterprise, computer intensive environments but if it is a high end model, it must work if telcos are using it.

[spearheadtaper]

Ive always thought of Maxtor and Plextor to be the upper crust as far as reliability.

I only use maxtor....  I have four 300 gb drives and never a problem....

they were recently bought by seagate .... lots of deals on them lately...   picked one up for half price at best buy a few weeks ago.... 50 cents a gig is money