>>Of course, that was like a 5MB drive made of about ten platters, each something like 10-12" across. Sprinkle some iron filings on the platter and you could almost read the bits with the naked eye.<<
Yeah, that's how we used to read 'em in the old days! I thought it was a pizza oven the first time I encountered one. Regards, Bob S. On 6/25/07, Doug Franklin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > graywolf wrote: > > > Still I am interested in how often folks here have experienced > > hard-drive failure, and with which type of drive (IDE, SATA, > > SCSI, other), and anyone else's experience with RAID systems. > > I've experienced nearly every type of failure on every brand and type of > "hard disk" that's existed since some time in the 1970s. Anything will > fall over if you push on it hard enough. > > I was a co-op student for IBM when PC AT (or was it PC XT) 5.25" 10MB or > 20MB drives were dropping like flies ... literally by the train-car > load. IIRC, the DOA rate was on the order of 20-30% and the "dead after > a month" rate was twice that. It was so bad that our divisional > director rammed through "blue labeling" of a different manufacturer's > drive just for our division's customers. Did the same thing with > Novell's NetWare when LAN Man was such a joke (ca. 1984). > > Had some pretty funny, nearly serious non-failures, too. Like the day I > accidentally spilled a fresh six-ounce cup of coffee, one cream, two > sugars, into an open spindle drive. I was cleaning sticky goo out of > the housing for weeks, but the platters and mechanicals never skipped a > beat. Of course, that was like a 5MB drive made of about ten platters, > each something like 10-12" across. Sprinkle some iron filings on the > platter and you could almost read the bits with the naked eye. > > -- > Thanks, > DougF (KG4LMZ) > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
