[Cialug] Re: hd slow down

[Dave Weis <djweis@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

i concur with lee. i've bought half a dozen maxtor drives in the last few
years and haven't had problems yet. back in the day, i replaced about 10
2-4 gig wd drives in gateway machines that soured me on them. i don't know
what their quality is like recently, though.

one thing to think about is that wd drives usually have pretty good
rebates or other deals (like free ram, or other stuff). that's along the
same lines as windows nt having the best in-kernel debugger. there's a
reason.

dave

On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, Softwre Janitor wrote:

> I personally have had good luck with Maxtor drives and bad
> luck with Western Digital.  In fact three out of the last
> four drives I've had fail have been Western Digital, and
> the fourth was a Conner and they got bought out by Seagate
> so I don't count them anymore.  Even if Western Digital was
> the cheapest, I wouldn't buy one.  The fact that they
> generally are more expensive just makes it an easier decision.
> I've had pretty good luck with IBM drives as well, although
> I've heard reports that some of their newer models have had
> problems.
> 
> I added a new 30G Maxtor 7200 rpm drive to my main Linux
> box here, so I hope not to have any problems with it.  All
> of the file systems on it are ext3 though instead of ReiserFS.
> 
> One thing I'd suggest is backing up that drive and then
> fdisking and rebuilding it from scratch.  If that doesn't
> help at all then I'd have to wonder if the cache memory
> on the drive hasn't failed or something (which might explain
> why read performance is affected more than write performance).
> 
> --- John and Kathy Wilson <kjwilson@polarisarts.com> wrote:
> > "Kevin C. Smith" wrote:
> > > 
> > > On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 09:00:32AM -0600, Kevin C. Smith wrote:
> > > > On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 07:51:45AM -0600, John and Kathy Wilson
> > wrote:
> > > > > "Kevin C. Smith" wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Help,
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Just started having a major slow down with my hard drive.
> > > > > > It is a Matrox UltraATA100.
> > > > > > Using the ReiserFS.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Currently:
> > > > > > hdparm -t /dev/hde
> > > > > > results range from 4.80 to 16.00 MB/sec
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Prior results where around 30.00 MB/sec.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > This an extremely notable slowdown. I rebooted, Windows
> > solution :),
> > > > > > but this didn't help. Application are loading very slow.
> > > > > > When I logged in it took a good 30 seconds before asking for
> > the
> > > > > > password!
> > > > > >
> > > > > > ReiserFS problem or Hardware? Any ideas?
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I tested one of my other drives an performance was as
> > expected.
> > > > >
> > > > > I had a 40 GB Maxtor in a drive cage and noticed a similar
> > problem.  I
> > > > > pulled the drive to check it out and the thing was so hot I
> > could barely
> > > > > hang onto it.  I think I burned the thing up.  It was the boot
> > disk and
> > > > > been causing severely slow boots and performance problems.  It
> > never has
> > > > > recovered, but fortunately it was functional enough to slowly
> > get the
> > > > > data off.  Write speeds were fine, but the read speeds were
> > trashed.
> > > > >
> > > > > John
> > > >
> > > > That was my first thought, but no it was running cool. A little
> > warmer
> > > > then the others, but hardly too hot.
> > > 
> > > P.S. John: What did you replace it with? May need to go shopping
> > :(.
> > 
> > Unfortunately, I cannot afford to replace it right now, but the
> > second
> > 60 GB drive and an old 13 GB are standing in stead.  I think I am
> > going
> > for Western Digital or IBM for future hard drives.  Though this was
> > my
> > only problem with a Maxtor, but they are not necessarily the least
> > expensive anymore.
> > 
> > John
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