File System ???

[Clint Tinsley]

I think if you research it, you will find that WindozeXP does not support anything larger than 130 gigabyte drive (It's a feature not a bug).  As for Maxtor, I have had very few drive failures, I could probably count them on one hand, and this is in being responsible for thousands of desktops in a large school district.  Not a plug for Maxtor but all drive manufacturers have their MTBF factors and all have premature failures that don't meet the MTBF.  Besides that, Windoze not withstanding, it is up to the user to assure that they properly shutdown their computers, should a shutdown or reboot be necessary.  And what are we doing discussing Windoze on a Ubuntu forum????

----- Original Message -----
From: "'Forum Post" <ulist at gs1.ubuntuforums.org>, '@wailuku.xlogicgroup.com
To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
Subject: Re: File System ???
Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2005 04:47:51 -0500

> 
> 
> Matt Patterson Wrote:
> > I have had this problem before, but with a windows box, and it would
> > occur on a proper shutdown as well as an unplanned poweroff. It was
> > caused by a pair of new 160 GB maxtor drives I installed. I tracked it
> > down to the fact that the disks were not completing their cache flushes
> > before system poweroff. Some drives lie about whether or not they have
> > flushed things. On a windows box this is a horrible killer because the
> >
> 
> > last thing written is the system registry hive (stupid design in my
> 
> > opinion).
> 
> Sorry for a very late reply, but I've seen this same thing happen on a
> Windows XP box with a 160GB Maxtor drive. In fact the Maxtor was so bad
> that I couldn't use it in XP at all. The drive failed totally in 6
> months or so (like all my other Maxtor drives, except two older 80GB
> drives I still have left). I lost very important data, because the
> backup drive of the failed drive failed before I got a new drive. :mad:
> 
> 
> 
> 
> My nearest computer shop doesn't sell Maxtor anymore. They told that
> selling stuff that doesn't work is bad for business.
> 
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