There was a bad batch of the Desktop version running 7200. We have installed perhaps 50 of these Seagate 160 GB 5400 rpm drives, but were told by our supplier that the 7200 rpm drives crashed within 30 days... and Seagate discontinued production of the faster rpm.
The drives from Fujitsu, Western Digital, Toshiba, and Seagate are now so cheap that we don't worry about it... but then, of course, there is that issue of lost data. We have actually dropped to 5400 rpm drives for most laptops because the failure rates on those of any brand over 40 GB have been so very high. We have found all Seagates to be our third most reliable drives, riding slightly behind Fujitsu, and way behind Toshiba, yet way ahead of Western Digital and Samsung. Just avoid the Hitachi drives, and do backups... Any drive over a year old is suspect, methinks. __ Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will. ... .... ..... ...... ....... Lance Armstrong It is better to wear out than to rust out. Cicero, 106 BC On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 5:13 PM, Laurence Spiegel < [email protected]> wrote: > > Seagate ST9160821A MBR sector issue? > > This is said to be a reliable drive (160GB, 5400), but internet chatter has > reports of the sectors holding the MBR going bad. Googling "ST9160821A mbr" > seems to indicate there was a bad batch at some point. Is there any way to > check such a drive for future reliability? Was that an isolated bad run, or > is is common with this model? > > Thoughts? > _______________________________________________ > Thinkpad mailing list > [email protected] > http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad > _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
