Three out of how many total replacements? It seems to me that, in general, hard drives are not the most reliable of beasts. I've certainly gotten a bad hard drive, brand new, off of a store shelf. Refurbs have always been good to me, but then I don't deal with that many.
- Alex -- Smart is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wise is knowing better than to put one in a fruit salad. On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 7:30 PM, STeve Andre' <[email protected]> wrote: > On 08/23/12 19:59, Alex Austin wrote: > >> A refurb of a good disk is fine. A bad disk won't pass the refurb process. >> In many ways, a refurb would be preferable to a new disk. >> >> - Alex >> > > That is not true. > > Three times now, I have gotten, or helped others with replacement > disks that were bad. Three times. > > Manufacturers are good at fixing obvious problems. But really > intermittent problems, ones where the disk works perfectly for > 200+ hours and then glitches, gets past them. I had a delightful > go-round with an oem over this exact thing. They got the disk > and said it was good and therefore did not deserve to be replaced. > Only after several hundred hours of testing did I reproduce the > problem, and got a new disk. > > > --STeve Andre' > > > > > > ______________________________**_________________ > Thinkpad mailing list > [email protected] > http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/**mailman/listinfo/thinkpad<http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad> > _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
