Hello Tom!

30 Apr 04 08:10, you wrote to me:

 TW> No Hard Drive is perfect, they ap have problems. And peoples opinions
 TW> are based mostly on their Experiences. If one had a problem with
 TW> Maxtors they are forever after Crap.

That's obivous, but my point is that those problems seem to be
geographically localised :)

 TW> And of course you have the
 TW> Operating conditions to concider in the different parts of the worls.
 TW> Weather, Electrical line stability etc..

Now that seems more likely.

 TW> I myself have had VERY good
 TW> luck with Maxtor. Although I have also has good luck with Western
 TW> Digital and Seagate. The IBM's had a prolbem with one series that gave
 TW> them a Black Eye. Peritcualrly they tried to Deny the prolbem for a
 TW> long time before doing anythign about it. They since have sold their
 TW> Entire Hard Drive line to a Japanese company.  Perhaps Hitachi?? I
 TW> cannot recall.

Best Regards, Viktor (aka BlackDew)

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