On Jul 27, 2005, at 5:19 AM, Tom Reese wrote:
The hard drive on my machine at work failed yesterday. I've also had numerous hard drive failures. Anyone who trusts their hard drive with anything important is asking for major trouble.
It's often the case that a drive failure is a symptom of something else being wrong rather than the problem itself. As I've been told it by repair techs, the major reason for drive and controller failure is poor power stability. Most of the less expensive computers on the market have marginal quality voltage supplies and voltage regulation which is somewhat suspect, thus many drive failures.
I've been using Apple systems since 1984, and Apple has a particularly good record for power supply/voltage regulation in all of their cpu boxes; I haven't seen any of the problems even with the same drives that seem to fail consistently on other computers.
(I've never had a drive in an external enclosure fail either, and I attribute that to the fact that I usually buy good quality enclosures with quality power supply systems in them.)
Godfrey
