At 12:42 AM 13/05/2007, Winterlight wrote:
The only consistency in the hardware industry is inconsistency.
I think it has more to do with how drives are shipped from the
vendor. Vendors use to send these out in boxes with big foam
inserts, but now you are lucky if they secure it in bubble wrap. I
have bought drives that were thrown in a box loose with bubble wrap
and were rolling around inside the box when delivered. NewEgg isn't
much better.
The failures I'm seeing are in drives installed by the vendor in most
cases. Dell is absolutely atrocious (of course, the mounting of
their drives encourages movement in a lot of desktops, which Tim
mentioned before was a bad idea. I'm still seeing a lot of failures
in Maxtors, Seagates, and low-end WDs (BB and EB series.)
T
