"Homer J" <amolasy@bellnet.ca> wrote in
news:kVLRc.10241$Mq1.424695@news20.bellglobal.com: 

> Have a good sized array of HDD's supporting a recent  Intellex v3.1
> install. 
> 
> 30 days into operation starting to experience HDD failures - anyone
> having similar experiences ??
> 
> Would this be similar to the nightmare experienced a year or so ago
> with IBM's "Death-Star" or Maxtor's high capacity drive problems ??
> 
> Homer J
> 
> 

Homer yes out of the 22 intellex DVRs i have installed in the last year 
almost 50% have had hard drives fail within 90days 
At my last contact with American Dynamics on this problem they faulted 
Maxtor with bad Quality Control