On Oct 11, 2005, at 3:31 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In a message dated 10/11/05 9:46:23 AM,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
<< If you're killing three drives in less than a year you're either
getting them from the wrong source (someone selling substandard
drives) or are doing something else to 'em, because, frankly, drives
a lot more robust than that. >>
Sorry if I wasnt clear. I said one drive, in my experience, would
not last 4
years. For example, I have a drive from a Umax C600 which is now
dead, as
well as an identical drive out of a PC that is dead. Also, one of
my 6GB Apple
branded drives, out of a beige g3, is really unusable though I think a
reformat might save it.
Those are old, old drives. When was the Umax C600 made? 97?, 98? Back
in the late 90's we were getting lots of dead drives. WD made a 6G
drive in the day that was a total dog. We got a bunch in several
models of Gateway we were buying at the time, every one of them
failed within three years. Then again we've gotten a lot of WD drives
since then, that haven't been a problem.
My other Apple branded 6GB is working good so far. I also
have a "refurbished" IBM 40GB DeskStar that didnt last me more than
a month. I
do believe some of those drives may have been unreliable models.
But please
tell which drives are reliable.
I'd have to look at the drives. I do know the used 40G drive I got is
an IBM Deskstar, has been running over a year and a half now 24/7 on
my work desktop. (only certain models qualify as the 'DeathStar').
I'd hazard most of the ones in the systems at work are WD.
I've got a selection of drives, Maxtor, WD, Seagate, IBM. Aside from
the one I dropped, none have given me any problems. But then I buy
'em new, most of the time, and so I know their history, make sure I
have 'em on UPSes and shut down properly. I really believe that
that's a sizeable chunk of the reliability equation.
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