I'll jump in late on this and say that the only HD faults I've come across (2 in 2 years at work) is when to OS froze & someone hit the reset button. On restart the machine was dead.
I'll add that I pulled a dead HD apart this week and I didn't notice any means for the head to be raised off the plate. Also as someone who likes tinkering on the lathe, I was very surprised with the amount & quality of machining involved. Just my 0.02 cents Dave On 7/28/05, Godfrey DiGiorgi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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 > >
