Minor update on Charles' post: IBM sold much of their hard drive production to Fujitsu. Really nice IBM SCSI drives are available on Ebay cheap.
3% is not too bad. I've never had a hard failure on an IBM drive either (one bad sector). The problems with the "glass" drives rose exponentially with the number of platters (should have been linear since it was a head alignment problem but ...). The IBM warranty was based on "average" use (business day), I don't know of anyone who was ever refused replacement on the number of hours. The number of hours is stored on the drive (as is the number of spinups ...). SMART is a nice thing - too bad the raw numbers are inconsistent between drives and manufacturers. Heat and power interruptions are the enemies of hard disk drives. Try to avoid stacking them like plates in the cupboard. Get a UPS. I never willingly power anything down. I haven't bought WD drives for over a year but I do have a few still spinning. Jim Tarvid On Tuesday 17 December 2002 06:32 pm, you wrote: > On Tue, 17 Dec 2002 13:39:07 -0800 > > Larry Sword <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm have problems finding this anywhere on the IBM web site or by > > search. Can you please provide the source document you have for this?? > > This all came about because the warranty that IBM used for about a month > some time in 01 only warrantied their drives for X number of hrs, > something that worked out to about 10 hrs per day. > This wording was quickly removed and recanted. > > A statement was issued by them that even during that period all their > drives were/are tested and perform within norm during 24/7 operation. > The only IBM drive which had serious issues was the 75GXP > > I personally have 22 hds ranging from 12gb to 60gb and age from 5 years > to less than 6 months split about 50/50 between IBM and pre-buyout > Maxtors. > Thus far I have suffered 2 Maxtor failures and no IBM failures. > The only problem I have with IBM drives is that they are not available > locally. > > On the subject of drives another which has not been mentioned is > Fujitsu. > Stay away. > They, in Sept. admitted that at least 3% of their drives sold in Japan > will have to be replaced but they made no admission in regards to drives > sold elsewhere. > In the US a class action law suit has been filed against Fujitsu of > America and HP for sale of system with said drives. > Now not being produced for the desktop market many pre-built systems > were/are sold with these drives. > If you have 1 of these systems my suggestion would be to replace it or > at the very least make very frequent back-ups. > The drives most prone to failure are the MPG3xx, MPG3204AT, MPG3307AH > and the MPG3409AH. > Additional info on the class action suit can be found at > www.sheller.com/fujitsuclassaction.htm > > > Charles > > ---------------- > Twenty years of romance make a woman look like a ruin; but twenty years > of marriage make her something like a public building. > -- Oscar Wilde > ---------------------- > Charles A Edwards > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ----------------------
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