On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 8:16 PM, Kent A. Reed <[email protected]> wrote: > I've had very > few hard drives fail in the last decade. Those that did came from > different manufacturers and had different life histories. I'm in no > position to damn any specific brand, and I own or have owned pretty much > all of them. My suspicion is that periodic changes in manufacturing > technologies within a brand are more important than differences in > quality between brands.
Absolutely. Here's a story from early 90s: IBM was the actual inventor of the hard drives and they had a very reputable product line. It is well known that silicon grease is deadly for the interior of hard disks (apparently silicon grease, when mashed around by the flying hard disk magnetic pickup head, can convert to SiO2 mumble mumble mumble). This is well-known in the industry, and everybody uses specially formulated lubricants with a different chemistry. Well, once IBM got a batch of the right lubricant, delivered in plastic syringes. Unfortunately, the syringes were made by plastic injection molding by a manufacturer who changed mold release agent to something silicon grease-based. IBM made hundreds of thousands of drives before they figured out what happened. They had to recall them all after the failures started to kick in. Few years after that, they sold their HD business to Hitachi (who then merged with Western Digital). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All of the data generated in your IT infrastructure is seriously valuable. Why? It contains a definitive record of application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-c2 _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
