On Sunday 19 April 2009, Alan Pearson wrote:
>Without being funny, I wouldn't touch a moxtor drive with yours.
>
>I look after about 500 spinning disks in our company (from servers to
>desktops) and out of the 8 drive failures I've had in 3 years, 4 have
>been maxtor.
>Plus I've had the misfortune to have 2 fail at home, and I swear I'll
>never, ever, touch one again, no matter how cheap they are.
>
>I've got Seagate drives spinning from many years ago, and they're the
>only ones I'll buy now.
>
>Just my 2p !
>
>But Dustins right, the minute you see stuff like that from a drive,
>return it or bin it, it's not worth even messing about with the
>manufacturer utilities which may relocated bad sectors etc, the drive
>has past it's 'trust level'. Messing with e2fsk will likely make the
>problem worse, as it's trying to polish a rusty car, you could make
>more holes !

I think you were trying to be nice.  Personally I've had a mixed bag of luck 
with both labels, seagate owns maxtor you know.  I've had my poorest luck with 
WD drives here.  I believe they have a power up timer in them so they can 
schedule their death for about 15 days after the warranty has run out.  I have 
a pile of them here I use for test, but I'd never trust them with real data.  
One 320GB has over 100 million read errors and can't be forced into marking a 
single bad block.  Go figure.

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