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From: eazgwmir@umail.furryterror.org (Zygo Blaxell)
Subject: Re: Hard disk crash and solution
Date: 5 Feb 2003 22:04:38 -0500
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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...

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Zygo Blaxell (Laptop) <zblaxell@feedme.hungrycats.org>
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