At 09:19 AM 5/11/98 -0400, you wrote:
> Is it just me, or do Western Digital drives fail as much for everyone
>else as they do for me. I've had to replace the same 1.2 gig drive three
>times in the last year. I just replaced this drive (via RMA) about two
>weeks ago...it's failed before I could send the old one in! Sure, getting a
>new drive every six months or so is good thing (I guess) but I'd rather not
>have to do that. :)
I won't suggest that it's just you, but I've been running WD drives for
several years now without a failure. In about 14 years of microcomputer
use/ownership I've had three drives fail: a Seagate ST-225 (the original
21M drive), a 70M drive which came originally from DEC and the one in my
notebook. I've used Maxtor and WD for the past 5 years (at least) and
they're still running. My new workstation (a PII/233) has 3 WD drives.
Your milage obviuosly varied. <g>
Rich
Dr. Richard B. Shepard, President
Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc.
2404 SW 22nd Street
Troutdale, OR 97060-1247 USA
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