Question for you guys, why do you dislike WD hard drives? I've currently got a 20GB 7200 in my server and it runs beautifully. It's quiet, I've never had a problem with it, and it's plenty fast. I know of all the IBM hard drive problems, however where are these WD problems comming from?
NB On Sun, 2002-05-19 at 10:25, Brian Parish wrote: > On Sun, 2002-05-19 at 23:50, Tom Brinkman wrote: > > Most of those links (and others) refer to IBM HDD's over 40GB > > havin problems. I just recently had a 10 month old, IBM 30GB 7200rpm > > ata/100 2mb drive fail. My Linux drive ;( Mechanical problem. The > > drive was used 24/7, but after being shutdown for a week while I was > > out'a town, it wouldn't spin up when I booted the system. System > > wouldn't even boot with that drive connected. Fortunately I had most > > of the stuff I needed from that drive backed up to CD's. I replaced > > it with a Maxtor 40GB. OTOH, my Windoze drive is a several years old > > IBM 7200rpm, ata/66 13.6GB. Never has a problem ..... yet ;) > > -- > > Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas > > I remember back in "it's Y2K - the end is nigh!" days, a warning from > some advisory group - maybe Gartner - that drives running 24/7 on > systems being shutdown over the "danger period" were likely never to > spin up again. I think it was something about the heads getting stuck > to the platters. While they kept spinning, or during very short power > downs, everything stayed warm and smooth, but when they got cold... > > Anyway - sounds like what happened to you. > > Sounds like a good reason for a UPS - well, another good reason. > > Brian > > > ---- > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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