Re: Hard drive Reliability?

[maarten van den Berg <maarten@vbvb.nl>]

On Wednesday 19 May 2004 23:28, Sevatio wrote:
> Måns Rullgård wrote:
> > John Lange <john.lange@bighostbox.com> writes:

> > I'd agree that drives are not as good as they used to be.  I recently
> > had a one year old Western Digital disk suddenly drop dead while
> > running.  Nothing could be recovered from it.  Shortly after that I
> > bought four Seagate Barracuda ATA disks, one of which was defective.
> > It would work flawlessly for an hour to a month, then shut itself
> > down.  Rebooting made it run for a while before it repeated.
> >
> > Compare this to the 1GB Quantum Fireball SCSI disk sitting in my
> > firewall.  It's been running 24/7 since some time around 1996.
> >
> >>Does anyone know of any web sites with statistics or test data?
> >
> > That would be interesting.
>
> I would also concur.  I had a Western Digital that failed after 10
> months.  Western Digital sent me another one that failed in exactly 10
> months again.  I didn't want to send it in to get yet another piece of
> WD junk.  So, lesson learned to stay away form WD drives; correct or not.

<aol mode>  Me too !  </aol mode>

My current vendor gives me a hard time everytime I order a new drive since 
they sell WD predominantly.  I still do not give in, no WD for me anymore.

Maarten

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