Samxon question

[bgavin]

Re: Samxon question

I don't do repair depot work, so I don't have your volume of experience. However, I support many clients and draw upon that experience:

Every PSU that dies has bad caps.
Every dead mother board has a PSU with bad caps.
The most virulent killers are Antec and Bestec.

[PCBONEZ]

Re: Samxon question

The biggest mistake I se with people saying xxx hard drives are better than yyy hard drives is they blow off looking at the models they are comparing.

That's like:
The Chevy Vega I had was a POS so all Chevy's suck.
The The Lincoln Continental was fantastic so all Fords are great.

That's just stupid thinking.

Same same with "I've seen more dead Vegas than Linclons.
- Ya think maybe they MADE MORE of the cheap one?

Maxtor has sold Cubic Butt-Tons of lower end drives with a 1-ish Year warranty.
- They are lower end and higher volume so more show up faled. (DUH!)

It's not legit to compare them to another make with a 3 or 5 Year warranty.
- They aren't the same class of drives.

Try comparing Maxtors with a 3-5 year warranty to drives of other makes with a comparable warranty.
- THAT would be useful information.

If you aren't looking at it that way then your Brand-Quality conclusions are just as bogus as the Vega-Linclon comparision.

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[i4004]

Re: Samxon question

- They aren't the same class of drives.

yes they were same class.
they had same warranty(it failed after a year and a half which means it had 3 year warranty) and same price as other mfr whose drives lasted 2-3x more.

about how much they sell: dunno how much they sold, but they'll be selling less after such results.
if everybody is saying "stay away from maxtor" it cannot be good for them.

there WAS a problem with maxtor; sure other mfrs had problems too, but not as much.
i mean what odds are to have 2 successive drives from same mfr that fail withing same(short) span?
on web forums one can find stories of people buying (for example) 4 maxtor drives and all failing within first year....
so my case doesn't sound like freak accident anymore...

[trodas]

Re: Samxon question

I had recapped many PSUs with Samxons and with great sucess and extremly low resulting ripple from them - when I finally droped my mad ideas about using ceramic caps instead of the small electrolyte caps and such.
Another crazy idea is to use hi-rated Samxon GA/GC caps in PSU Especially mixed GA with RS on other rail produce "extraordinary results" -HoNY- can tell

Samxons GD at most for the output, Samxons RS for all the small caps.

Some examples was posted there at BadCaps, but thanks for the Slibe.com the images are lost and thanks for not be able to edit them back, images are gone. Some was recoveded there, tough:
http://capsmod.net/forum/viewthread....extra=page%3D1
http://capsmod.net/forum/viewthread....extra=page%3D1
http://capsmod.net/forum/viewthread....extra=page%3D1

PS. for the input caps, I like Panny TS-ED much more, as they have excelent high ripple specs. But that is a issue only when come to PSUs over like 450W.


Just my two cents.