On Sun, 2002-05-19 at 01:44, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: > Have you used any IBM drives made in the past year? Until about a year ago IBM > drives were renowned for their reliability, and I used to recommend IBM to all > my friends. Since then, they have suffered reliability problems, and the return > rate for IBM drives has been high. There was even a class-action lawsuit > launched against IBM last year, since so many people's drives failed (I think > this was settled out of court). > > IBM have been first to develop and implement all sorts of new technologies, > including glass platters and that 'pixie dust' stuff. It looks as if they're > having major teething problems with these new technologies. > > There was some controversy a few weeks ago when IBM placed warnings on their new > drives indicating that they shouldn't be used for more than eight hours per day. > If that isn't an indication of poor reliability, then I don't know what is. > > With all these quality control problems, and IBM's recent financial woes, I am > not surprised that they have decided to sell their hard drive unit to Hitachi. > > If you're wondering where I get all this stuff, it is The Register > (http://www.theregister.co.uk). > > For me, IBM was a natural choice until this string of incidents. WD is out of > the picture, since they don't correctly follow the ATA spec. That leaves Seagate > and Maxtor.
Ugh. This is not good at all. And it is true that my information is slightly dated; the two IBM Deskstar's I have here are about a year old. Where did you get this information? Any links? LX -- ��������������������������������������������������� Kernel 2.4.8-26mdk Mandrake Linux 8.1 Enlightenment 0.16.5 Evolution 1.02 Registered Linux User #268899 http://counter.li.org/ ���������������������������������������������������
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