FWIW, my latest failed HDD was a 160 GB western digital SATA, only a few years old at most. The old drives failed too though, my first HDD failure was a 20 MB IDE model way back in 1990 on the job. Still using DOS back then.
JC O'Connell [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of JC OConnell Sent: Friday, February 13, 2009 9:37 AM To: 'Pentax-Discuss Mail List' Subject: RE: That's it I'm Done with Digital (for now) While I have not researched into it, intuition would seem to tell me that todays massive data size drives would be more likely to be less reliable than the small data size drives of yesteryear due to the incredibly high data density. Like I said, I dont know if this is true or not, but that would be my hunch, and a personal HDD crash last fall doesnt hurt my hunch. JC O'Connell [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Paul Stenquist Sent: Friday, February 13, 2009 9:28 AM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: That's it I'm Done with Digital (for now) On Feb 12, 2009, at 4:23 PM, Adam Maas wrote: > On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 3:54 PM, John Sessoms <[email protected]> > wrote: >> From: Adam Maas >>> >>> On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 12:41 PM, Evan Hanson >>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>>> >>>>> I've got four computers here and the two bad CD's won't work on >>>>> any of them. >>>>> What really gets me is that Apple knew that they had a batch of >>>>> seagate >>>>> drives prone to self destruction and didn't warn us. Evidently >>>>> the >>>>> arms >>>>> have a habit of smashing the heads into the platters destroying >>>>> the >>>>> data. >>>>> >>>>> Arghhh. >>>>> >>>>> Evan >>>>> >>> >>> There's no such thing as a bad batch of Seagate Drives. All of their >>> SATA and PATA drives have been unreliable ever since they shifted >>> production of non-SCSI drives to the old Connor factories after the >>> Connor buyout in the mid-90's. Every Seagate I've acquired since >>> then >>> has failed (I keep getting them in systems or external drives). >> >> Just goes to show I can't do anything right. I've never had a problem >> with Seagate drives. >> > > The sad part is that Seagate SCSI drives are among the most reliable > ever seen. I own a half-dozen pre-96 Seagate SCSI drives, the oldest > dating to 1987. All are completely functional (if very small). The > drives are in my small collection of old 68k Macs. > I have a pair of physically large Seagate SCSI drives stashed away somewhere here. I think they're both 40 megs and are from my last 8068 Mac. I had a 10 meg drive on my last Apple // but gave it away some time ago. That one was a real monster. All still worked last time I tried them. Paul > -- > M. Adam Maas > http://www.mawz.ca > Explorations of the City Around Us. > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above > and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
