At 11:50 03/24/2005 -0500, Michael Werneke wrote: >My Promise Ultra133 IDE card died after about 9 months of light use. >I was wondering if anyone could recommend one that will last >considerably longer than that.
The failure of this particular card is not necessarily indicative of the overall quality of the entire production run. The card should have at least a one year warranty, so you should be able to get an RMA for it. I have an older Promise card (ATA33) that has been in use for 6 years on a daily basis, but it's a different model so can't be compared despite the fact it's the same vendor. The real problem with any of these items is that they are designed for the high volume, low-profit margin consumer market. Product model lifetimes (how long a particular model is in production) is generally only 9-12 months, and even within that there are revision levels of the product. The parts that the product are made from also change, and maybe even the factory. For hard drives I have the same model number made in two different countries with different ICs on the controller board yet they look the same to my computer. If you get another replacement card, the reality is there is not enough lifetime data available to make a decision on whether the new card will be more reliable than the previous one. Gus "someone will recommend SCSI" Wirth -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
