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Gateway's Promise not to sell Sub-$1,000 PCs?
Quick! Back up everything! Ten or more years without a failed drive is
pushing your luck! Hurry! ... Ben On 25 Jul 2006 00:28:47 -0700, "Justin" wrote: Ben Myers wrote: Seagate is the Borg in this matter and the general feeling in the industry is that Seagate bought market share and not technology, and that Seagate will phase out Maxtor hard drive designs as quickly as possible, to maintain its own decent reputation. There is no sense in carrying forward two sets of hard drive designs, two sets of engineers, etc. I would expect the Maxtor brand name to carry on for a bit, then get dropped, as when Quantum was bought by Maxtor. I tore down an older computer the other day and one hard drive had a Maxtor label on an obviously Quantum design. The failed second drive in the system was (Surprise!) a Maxtor of Maxtor design... Ben Myers I never had problems with Maxtor... I know people who did. I like Western Digital myself. Come ot think of it... I haven't had a hard drive fail since 1995 and it was a Fujitsu. Does that mean I'm due? |
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Gateway's Promise not to sell Sub-$1,000 PCs?
Ben Myers wrote: Quick! Back up everything! Ten or more years without a failed drive is pushing your luck! Hurry! ... Ben Well I quasi back up. I saye importans junk on diskettes and jump drives. I back up big files onto another PC thanks to the LAN. |
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Gateway's Promise not to sell Sub-$1,000 PCs?
Quasi backup is better than none. Why not a CD-RW with the capacity of over
400 floppy diskettes? And generally more robust, too, if taken care of properly... Ben Myers On 25 Jul 2006 12:30:55 -0700, "Justin" wrote: Ben Myers wrote: Quick! Back up everything! Ten or more years without a failed drive is pushing your luck! Hurry! ... Ben Well I quasi back up. I saye importans junk on diskettes and jump drives. I back up big files onto another PC thanks to the LAN. |
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Gateway's Promise not to sell Sub-$1,000 PCs?
On Mon, 24 Jul 2006 22:03:01 -0400, Ben Myers ben_myers_spam_me_not @
charter.net wrote: There is no sense in carrying forward two sets of hard drive designs, two sets of engineers, etc. Actually some companies that buy out others keep the other's name in tact in order to "own" their own competition. That way, when you get ****ed off at, lets hypothetically say Seagate, and run off an buy a Maxtor to get even, you are actually buying from one and the same. Regards, Ed |
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Gateway's Promise not to sell Sub-$1,000 PCs?
On Tue, 25 Jul 2006 20:55:36 -0400, Ben Myers ben_myers_spam_me_not @
charter.net wrote: Why not a CD-RW I use Ghost 2003 on DVD+R's. I have never had much luck with DVD-RW's. There always seems to be one that will not "reload" after being written to. Same problem going back over 4 systems with 6 different optical drives and using Nero and Easy CD/DVD Creator. With that, I can say the problem isn't with the systems, drives or software but the media. I don't trust RW. Regards, Ed |
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Gateway's Promise not to sell Sub-$1,000 PCs?
Yes, like Gateway and eMachienes, or Hewlett-Packard and Compaq.
With the large majority of drive sales still OEM through system builders, I would bet that if the Maxtor brand name survives, it will be as a retail brand. You can't full procurement managers the way you can fool consumers. But the Maxtor brand has a well-deserved poor reputation. If it was my brand name, I would put a stake through its heart and wear a neckace of garlic cloves to ward off failing Maxtor drives... Ben Myers On Tue, 25 Jul 2006 23:12:16 -0400, Ed wrote: On Mon, 24 Jul 2006 22:03:01 -0400, Ben Myers ben_myers_spam_me_not @ charter.net wrote: There is no sense in carrying forward two sets of hard drive designs, two sets of engineers, etc. Actually some companies that buy out others keep the other's name in tact in order to "own" their own competition. That way, when you get ****ed off at, lets hypothetically say Seagate, and run off an buy a Maxtor to get even, you are actually buying from one and the same. Regards, Ed |
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Gateway's Promise not to sell Sub-$1,000 PCs?
Ben Myers wrote: Quasi backup is better than none. Why not a CD-RW with the capacity of over 400 floppy diskettes? And generally more robust, too, if taken care of properly... Ben Myers The floppy disk is for term papers and various MS Word docs. Everything isnce undergrad is on one diskette dating back to 1995. Not the same diskette. Byt yes, big crap I put on CD and DVD-R and RW's. |
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Gateway's Promise not to sell Sub-$1,000 PCs?
Ed wrote: On Tue, 25 Jul 2006 20:55:36 -0400, Ben Myers ben_myers_spam_me_not @ charter.net wrote: Why not a CD-RW I use Ghost 2003 on DVD+R's. I have never had much luck with DVD-RW's. There always seems to be one that will not "reload" after being written to. Same problem going back over 4 systems with 6 different optical drives and using Nero and Easy CD/DVD Creator. With that, I can say the problem isn't with the systems, drives or software but the media. I don't trust RW. Regards, Ed I've had issues with RWs too. CRC check failed seems to be the most popular error I get. My brother the techno challenged seems to use them for years without a problem. I don't get it. |
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Gateway's Promise not to sell Sub-$1,000 PCs?
Ben Myers wrote: Yes, like Gateway and eMachienes, or Hewlett-Packard and Compaq. With the large majority of drive sales still OEM through system builders, I would bet that if the Maxtor brand name survives, it will be as a retail brand. You can't full procurement managers the way you can fool consumers. But the Maxtor brand has a well-deserved poor reputation. If it was my brand name, I would put a stake through its heart and wear a neckace of garlic cloves to ward off failing Maxtor drives... Ben Myers I have one chugging away in my Linux machine thats constantly on for the past three years. Hehehee... I don't have dust bunnies in the PC... I have dust bison. |
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Gateway's Promise not to sell Sub-$1,000 PCs?
"Ben Myers" wrote: "There are good quaility motherboards (Intel, Asus and
maybe a couple others) and pure junk (PC Chips, ECS, Matsonic, MicroStar and any other brand name for a PC Chips board)." Ben, what have you found wrong with MicroStar motherboards? I've only seen one with the bad capacitors issue, the rest ( a dozen) have been very stable. Jack "Ben Myers" ben_myers_spam_me_not @ charter.net wrote in message ... Component or commodity? They are all commodities these days. In a few areas, there are some brands of commodity components that are better than others. There are good quaility motherboards (Intel, Asus and maybe a couple others) and pure junk (PC Chips, ECS, Matsonic, MicroStar and any other brand name for a PC Chips board). There are good hard drives (Fujitsu, Seagate) and junk (Maxtor now assimilated by Seagate, Samsung). There are decent CD/DVD readers/burners/combo drives (Sony, Hitachi, LG) and really and truly no-name brands. Cases differ in price, quality and features. You still have major choices available like AMD vs Intel or Celeron vs Pentium 4 vs Xeon. So pick your commodity components from what is available and move on. ... Ben Myers On 23 Jul 2006 14:48:23 -0700, "Justin" wrote: Ben Myers wrote: I can't argue loudly about on-board video, but on-board NIC and on-board audio, provided they are of reasonable quality, cost pennies to build into a motherboard and give excellent performance. Intel or Broadcom NIC chips are first rate. So are ADI audio chips. So why would you need something different? The best argument would be if one were a major audiophile with discriminating ear to match. Then maybe a $200 audio card would make sense. If so, the on-board audio can always be disabled. On-board video is not really awful either for most run-of-the-mill computing tasks. It simply does not cut it for gamers... Ben Myers I understand that, I simply like choosing every component. than again I also liked paying a buck for a gallon of gas too. |
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