hard drive woes

[Kurt Kessler]

Thanks everyone for all the good info.

I really wonder if the quality HAS gone downhill. I
Still have several drives that are WAAAAYYY beyond
their usable lifetime. These are smaller drives
540mb-3.5gb, Fujitsu, Samsung, Western Digital,
Seagate, Maxtor. All are running just fine. The only
horror stories I seem to hear about are newer (less
than 2 year old) drives that just went belly up. What
gives??? Its just crazy if you ask me.

Kurt

--- admin at kclinux.net wrote:
> > When I worked in a hardware shop, it seems like
> drives became
> > more and more unrecoverable as technology
> advanced.  I took that to
> > mean that they were reliable enough that they only
> failed if they were
> > really, really dead.
> 
> I couldnt agree with this any more.  I no longer
> "depend" on IDE drives for
> important data any more.  Seems when drives got
> larger than 10 gig, they
> seem to fail alot more often.  I have four Maxtor 6
> gig IDE drives in one
> system, and I've never had a problem with them.  But
> for at least the past
> 2 years, I've had 10 to 80 gig drives go out from
> Maxtor, Western Digital,
> and Seagate. I havent tried IBM's desktop hard
> drives yet, but if they're
> as reliable as their laptop drives in Toshiba
> Tecras, no thanks.
> 
> I have yet to see one of my SCSI drives go out for
> the last 4 years.
> 
> 
> 
> 
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