I understood! I was poking fun that you tried them again, and again lost! I hope you understood me. "When will you learn? :)" Also, I thought of this about 4 years ago. Describes many managers! "Sure you saved money, but at what cost?" - Guy Watkins -----Original Message----- From: linux-raid-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:linux-raid-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Robin Bowes Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 2004 6:03 PM To: linux-raid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Good news / bad news - The joys of RAID Mark Hahn wrote: >>When will you learn? :) > > > exactly - you can conclude absolutely nothing from two samples. > I read that mail as "I stopped buying Maxtor (for whatever reason) then tried them again and had an 100% failure rate (albeit with a small sample size) so have stopped buying them again" rather than "I bought two Maxtor drives that failed so Maxtor drives are shit". My own personal experience (I'm the OP in this thread) is that the 250GB SATA Maxtor Maxline II drives I have purchased have an unacceptable failure rate (something like 40% in 5 months) R. -- http://robinbowes.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
