Re: Hard drive Reliability?

[berk walker <berk.walker@verizon.net>]

I know a guy with a box of dead WDs, and I have 3 out of 5 bad Maxtor 
40Gb. drives

John Lange wrote:

>I have a few discussions recently with technical service people and we
>all come to the conclusion that Hard Drives are far less reliable than
>they used to be.
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>Case in point, I have a 120G Maxtor drive in a server that began to fail
>less than 8 months into service. Major headache.
>
>I've heard similar stories from other people. I guy I know that sells
>both desktop and file server systems now says he now only builds
>motherboards with some kind of RAID 1 and dual drives because drives
>fail so often this saves loads of headaches. After a their system has
>died and they 'lost everything' people are more than willing to pay the
>extra $150 for redundancy.
>
>I know drive manufactures were sued recently in a class action for
>shipping drives which they knew were going to fail prematurely but that
>was a few years back.
>
>So what are other peoples feelings about drive reliability and are some
>brands better than others?
>
>Does anyone know of any web sites with statistics or test data?
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