On 19 Jan 2006, at 7:08 PM, Mark Benson wrote:
This looks a bit behind the current thread - I tried to send it a
few days ago and the list spat it back because the mailbox was
full. Apologies :o)
On 17 Jan 2006, at 20:15, Jason Mayfield-Lewis wrote:
From what I've seen, the only range that ever had such a
significant failure rate was the 75GXP, and it's been ages since
they sold one of those.
May even have been an IBM design. My dad has one of those era
Deathstars and you can hear it on the other side of the room - it's
horrible.
I think the 75GXP was pre-HGST, though only just. It was definitely
an IBM product. My QS '02 shipped with a 120GXP 40GB drive and it's
quite possibly the noisiest one I've ever heard. It makes at least
three times the noise as the WD1200JB (not exactly a quiet drive
compared to more modern ones - one of the first with FDB) mounted
above it. Thankfully, I only use it to keep downloads on so it's spun
down most of the time and getting replaced along with the WD with a
pair of 250GB SATAs in RAID0 soon.
I think Hitachi have learned a lot about HD design recently, they
keep coming out with really fast 7200RPM drives.
Yeh, making small hard disks has helped them make the larger ones
more efficient. They are definitely a big player and they are one
of Seagate's only big rivals in the enterprise SCSI market.
Seagate's latest generation of Barracudas is the same - they've
learned a lot from making Momentus 2.5" drives I think. My newest
200GB Barra spins up in less than a second and runs much cooler
than the previous generation 80GB in the G4.
I was seriously impressed by the E7K100 that went into my Mac mini.
Their 7200 2.5" drives are amazingly fast and reliable - It's part of
the reason I'm looking at 3.5" Hitachi drives now, though I've used
Hitachi/IBM 2.5" drives for ages.
I've had some bad experience with Maxtor, but that said, I have a
20GB drive from them that's been running 24x7 for about 7 years!
(along side a couple of IBMs even older and a Seagate 17GB drive
I've sworn was on the way out due to the horrible clunking noises
it's been making for the whole 3 years since I thought to put it
in my XBox! lol).
Here's a cracker. I have a Fujitsu 10GB drive that resides in my
Amiga 1200 tower system (it's too much to explain and way off
topic!!) that was once used as a slave on a Rev. 1 B&W (I was young
and stupid back then!!!). The last 24% or so of the surface is
toast, but the first 76% is totally error free. It's been running
for years in various machines as a 7GB hard disk without any loss
of data or anything. As long as you keep off the dead zone it's fine!
I had an A1200 I was planning to tower mod (pre 1995 I was an Amiga
user for ages. Then I got a Mac. Seemed natural :D) but I chucked it
out for some reason. I wish I hadn't now. lol.
My oldest hard disk is a 5MB (yes MB!!) Seagate 5.25" 1" height
drive. Runs fine - sounds like a small jet and needs manually
parking, but it's still going after 20 years!
I have a 286 with a 15MB Winchester drive in it round here somewhere.
I often wonder if it's any faster than the FDD!
Jason
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