im seeing a lot of physical failures. many broken heads, particularly on the seagate drives i have used. i rang up seagate personally and they denied they had a problem with the drives and it must have been the circumstances i was using the drive in.
Tom "Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you." -F. Scott Fitzgerald- ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul L Daniels" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Tom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, October 28, 2002 1:43 PM Subject: Re: [SLUG] hard drive choices > We basically seem to all come down to the same thing... there's a high level of 'unreliability' involved in modern hard drives. The next logical question is to ask, what is the form of the failures? > > Anyone give some opinions? Are we seeing an increase in IDE controller failures ( on HDD ) or physical defect failures (ie, broken heads, stiff armatures ? > > > Regards. > > > -- > 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 > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
