On Tuesday 07 Jan 2003 2:00 am, Andrew Miller wrote: > I built a server recently for web server, email server, file server and > other uses and am running Mandrake 9.0 on it. I used a pair of 100 GB > IBM Deskstars (120GXP's I believe). IBM is having problems with these > drives failing and now recommends only using them 330 hours a month, > something less than 50% of the time (see > http://www.sheller.com/ibmpress.htm). My question is whether my use of > these drives in a server application is something I should avoid?
Only if you want to keep your data. I would have thought that you should be entitled to your money back from your vendor. The idea of a HDD that can only be used 1/2 time is ludicrous. In England I think it would be covered by the Trades Description Act - I'm sure most countries have similar provisions. Anne
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