Hi all, I'm a new guy to the trilug group - an electrical engineering student at NC State. I figured I'd throw in my 2 cents on the hard drive question.
Just two weeks ago yesterday I had my WD 60 GB drive fail. The drive was about 2 years old, so this was unexpected, but fornuately it was still covered by warranty (I think my replacement drive arrives today...) WD seems to be a reputable brand, and there is a statistical chance of failure, but if the thing had broken just a little later I would be up the creek without a warranty. I think that Seagate's 5 year warranty says a lot. Doesn't mean they won't fail, but it means that if you back up your data you will have working hard ware and (hopefully) no data loss for five years. Fortunately for me, my Gentoo system could still read (VERY slowly) the failed hard drive (NTFS) to get (most) of my data back before I shipped the thing off to California. Interestingly, my roommate's Windows machine could not read anything from the drive whereas Gentoo could (slowly...) Randy Barlow -- 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
