Re: Hard drive Reliability?

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

TJ Harrell wrote:

>    I've never bought Seagate. Seagate was horribly unreliable in earlier
>times, 10 years ago, or so. I buy WD exclusively now because it is the only
>IDE drive I can get a 3 year warranty on. I've never had the problems with
>them that other people have expressed, but I don't hold high expectations,
>either.
>    I have read that the bearings used in current WD drives tend to wear
>faster at higher operating temperatures. New fluid bearings are supposedly
>less sensitive to this problem, though.
>    In any case, it seems that IDE drives are designed as throwaway drives,
>constructed as cheaply as possible. Servers generally use only SCSI. SCSI
>drives in general are manufactured better because servers require it, and
>customers are willing to pay for it. IDE equipment will not be manufactured
>as well because the market is unwilling to pay the price premium for
>quality. The market is too competetive in the desktop market. Most buyers
>don't know about quality, and buy on price. Consequently, drive prices are
>marginalized, and quality becomes of less importance.
>
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as hard core (read Linux) users rarely turn their systems off, wouldn't 
air-bearings be cheap and long life?

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