On Tuesday 17 December 2002 05:35 pm, Jim Tarvid wrote: > 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. > The new computer cases are MUCH better about this. Most of the good ones have fan mounts directly in front of the drives. Put a fan or two there if you can!!!!
> 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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