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From: Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>
Subject: Re: Hard disk crash and solution
Date: Thu, 06 Feb 2003 12:56:37 +0300
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To: Zygo Blaxell <eazgwmir@umail.furryterror.org>
Cc: reiserfs-list@namesys.com, Oleg Drokin <green@namesys.com>

Zygo Blaxell wrote:

>In article <3E37B9DC.20103@namesys.com>,
>Hans Reiser  <reiser@namesys.com> wrote:
>  
>
>>Zygo Blaxell wrote:
>>    
>>
>>>My employer used a total of 13 of these drives (various sizes, but all the
>>>same family) for RAID arrays.  We originally purchased 10, and replaced
>>>the first 3 to die...
>>>      
>>>
>
>  
>
>>Maybe we should warn against them in our FAQ?
>>    
>>
>
>I wouldn't be so quick to condemn all IBM disks.  I have a 342MB IBM IDE
>disk which is 11 years old (and counting), and some 1-2 year old IBM laptop
>drives that survived longer than their laptops did.
>
>But there were a few notorious ones all built around the same time,
>and I hear there was a class-action lawsuit...
>
>  
>
Oleg, please see if you can construct a faq entry warning against the 
particular known bad hard drives.

-- 
Hans