> Unfortunately drives dying is par for the course these days. Falling > prices have roughly equated to falling quality, when considered in > aggregate over the past ~8 years. Hopefully the recent trend (led by > Maxtor) back to 3yr warranties will hold the manufacturers to higher > quality standards... but somehow I doubt it.
when i build new PCs for my clients, i typically use 4-10gb hard drives salvaged from other machines. that's right, i trust a five year old 4gb drive more than i trust a brand new 80gb drive. the only downside is they're a little slow due to the lower data density, but that's not reason enough to use new piece of sh*t IDE hard drives. since virtually every office has a file server there is zero need for >4gb on most PCs that i encounter. why on earth doesn't someone make an inexpensive, quiet, reliable 4-8gb hard drive? jason -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
