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to: Bill Grimsley
from: Lewin Edwards
date: 1995-04-21 21:24:54
subject: Hard disk

>>> Is Maxtor or Western Digital good??
 VD>> Very cheap, but very unreliable... :(
 GB>> At last.. someone that agrees with my views entirely :)
 BG> Funny, I've been running a WD Caviar slaved to a Maxtor for almost three
 BG> years now, and neither have missed a beat.  Neither have the Maxtors in my
 BG> son's PC, nor my father's PC.  And the one I sold 2nd hand to a friend of

Well, I had one bad experience with a Maxtor, it kept losing data.

Here's the rest of the story - it was dropped out a third-floor window.
Miraculously, the data on it could be recovered.

-- Lewin A.R.W. Edwards (in defeat, malice; in victory, revenge)
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