> The unofficial figure on those was a 30% failure rate. > (theregister.co.uk has details on this from about a month ago)
Guess that goes to prove the comments previously that all manufacturers tend to have 'lemons' produced now and then. > Quantums are not good - been replacing lots of them lately, several I'll tend to agree with this, I've seen more Quantum pile up on my 'dud' desk than most. Of course, throwing in to the bias is the fact that they just don't even look/feel solid IMHO. > IBM are worrying. Aside from the numerous bad reports I have seen the > 18Gb SCSI's pack up repetitively. There's also their whole mean-usage-hours reduction in their testing/reliability specifications. > Maxtors and Western Digital are ok-ish, and Seagate's are good. WD's tend to come in 2nd to Quantum for failure rate... of course, all this is purely speculation based on my own experiences. -- Paul L Daniels http://www.pldaniels.com Linux/Unix systems Internet Development ICQ#103642862,AOL:cinflex,IRC:inflex A.B.N. 19 500 721 806 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
