hard drive woes
Dale
dale_n_ks at yahoo.com
Fri Nov 22 12:55:41 CST 2002
Yea... I've seen serveral fujitsu drives fail. Seems
like they go in spurts. I've had half a dozen
customers bring in systems over the last couple of
weeks. Dead drives.. all Fujitsu's.. of the 10 gig
flavor.
> Well, if you don't count the DeathStar line. :-)
> Both of mine died on me,
> and a friend of mine lost his too. (At least IBM's
> great about their
> warranty.) And now recently there's the whole
> Fujitsu IDE failing story
> that's been going around. I've given up on finding
> one manufacturer that
> doesn't have more problems than others...you'll find
> every manufacturer has
> people that would never use their drives and other
> people that will only use
> them.
>
> It does seem like most current IDE drives tend to be
> more fragile than in the
> past...guess it's just more incentive to make sure
> you've got all of your
> important data backed up somewhere. Hmmm...maybe
> this will be the final
> straw to get me to use SCSI in my next computer.
>
> --
> Crazy? I'll tell you what crazy is. Crazy is
> running around with half
> a melon on my head screaming "I'M A HAMSTER, I'M A
> HAMSTER,
> I'M A HAMSTER!!" Now that's crazy.
>
>
>
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