Acadia opened this issue on Dec 12, 2005 ยท 30 posts
svdl posted Tue, 13 December 2005 at 5:20 PM
If you dare, open the housing of the external HD. There should be a sticker on the back of the drive saying what brand and model it is. Most of the bad Maxtors were 120 GB and 160 GB, though there were also bad 80 GB drives. A friend of mine went through 3 DiamondMax9 160 GB drives within three months, until he switched to IBM/Hitachi. Just as big and fast as the DiamondMax, but much more reliable.
The pen is mightier than the sword. But if you literally want to have some impact, use a typewriter