On 15 Jan 2006, at 17:12, Aaron Fothergill wrote:
I'm still seeing more Deathstars fail than other types of drive at the moment and usually in very terminal ways. When you've got a device storing huge amounts of your data, it's going to take more than a couple of years of reassurances from the manufacturer that their 10%+ failure rate was just a glitch.
That is poor. Noted for reference.
I've probably just been lucky with the Maxtors I've inherited so far.
I've only inherited 2. Both still work which is something of a miracle in my book (touches lots of wooden things).
When actually buying hard drives, I do tend to go for the Seagate ones.
Yup, same here. Never had a Seagate go down on me in frontline service (touches lots more wooden things).
Seagate had a spell with U4/U5 series drives going dead on them, way back in 2000 or so I think, many were in iMac G3s (not totally the drives fault I suspect). Even in that instance it was only a couple of batches of 20 and 40GB disks, unfortunately a part of them seems to have been shipped to Apple. Only time I've heard of Seagate drives popping their clogs en-mass. Only failures I've had of Seagates have been from old age and under/over use.
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