> Except that the HD is brand new. It is not even one > week old... The manufacturers say that the most common time to find a defective hard drive is right when you get it. Not because they ship broken drives, but because the #1 cause of "infant mortality" is shipment from place to place.
The saying with hard drives is that if it works fine for the first couple weeks, it is healthy and will probably last 5 years. A drive that shows signs of trouble during the first weeks, on the other hand, is part of a small minority of drives that is at a very high risk of early failure. So, uh.. you might want to make a point of quickly replacing bad new drives :) This message posted from opensolaris.org
