Julian Opificius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've been following a thread on the Mandrake newbie list about hard > drives, and "learned" that my Western Digital HDs are about as welcome > in the Linux world as a hole in the head. > > I haven't had any problems with my RH7.2 installations to date, even > after I added a WD 80Gig drive on one of them. Am I living on borrowed > time? > Can anyone speak from experience on the issue?
I've run linux on wd drives since 1996. A total of 6 drives have been used 2 failed. One after about 3 yrs, the other after about 1 yr. The survivors are about 2-3yr old now. Both were replaced with no questions and in short order. (about 1 wk ). But I happen to live near a wd distribution point which may have sped it up on the return leg, but would have had no bearing on them getting it back to me. None of them have been treated gently. And have been pulled and installed a few times.. and .. not by experts, but yours truly. That is to say, they've been dropped, had coffee spilled on them etc. Not sure how that failure rate holds up against other brands since I've mostly used wd. I've moved slowly away from them, but more from retiring some drives due to there being small (3gig) and buying stuff that came with other brands installed, than on purpose. I have had 1 maxtor (of three I've used) , about 9mnts old, fail. It took 3 wks for a replacement to arrive, but was also free. I can make no comment on performance of a technical nature. But I kind of doubt it would be much of a factor between brands, unless you go scsi. It would be interesting to hear of other experiences. _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
