Oddly enough, the drive that's going bad is a Seagate, and the one i intended to replace it with is a Maxtor. But i'm going to abandon the Maxtor for the time being and replace the Seagate with an IBM, whilst shuffling files about.
I always think of the extravagantly goofy Spanish game show El Gran Juego de la Oca. There was this one episode in which people had to crawl around in a giant ant farm, being pursued by this guy in a sort of silver wrestler/Terminator getup. They called him "Maxtor" and before crawling into the giant ant farm he paraded around the studio shaking his fist in the air while the audience yelled "MAXTOR!!!! MAXTOR!!!! MAXTOR!!!!"
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Date: 2005-12-21 10:36 pm (UTC)Seagate bought Maxtor today.
How does THAT make you feel?
(runs)
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Date: 2005-12-21 11:48 pm (UTC)This has turned into a huge mess.
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Date: 2005-12-22 02:17 am (UTC)The rule used to be "Never buy a drive from a company whose name starts with M."
Then Fujitsu started building hard drives, and we amended the rule to say "In Japanese, Fujitsu starts with M."
Then Quantum got bought by Maxtor, and Maxtor got bought by Seagate, so WTF.
Who am I supposed to buy drives from?
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Date: 2005-12-22 03:20 am (UTC)The drive gnome
is never home
when the disk begins to fry.
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Date: 2005-12-23 01:06 am (UTC)Anyway, it seems the Seagate wasn't bad. I shall update my journal now that the server doesn't seem inclined to blow up under heavy disk use.
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Date: 2005-12-22 02:47 am (UTC)