As you have seen in the replies, it's pretty much a crap shoot regarding hard drives. At work we handle hundreds, if not thousands, of hard drives regularly. The ones that fail most of the time are LaCie and Seagate even though we buy primarily Western Digital internal and Maxtor externals. We have relatively few problems with Western Digital and Maxtor.
Hard drives have moving parts that are bound to fail. The best choice for storing large amounts of data is some sort of RAID configuration where if one or two disks go, the data can be reconstructed. Even then you still have to back the data up if it's valuable. The funny thing about media is that pretty much everything out there WILL fail. CDs and DVDs have shelf lives (not sure what it is though). And hard drives crash. Companies still use tapes for backup and they are problematic as well. All that to say: Use a RAID and backup often. . . . Kenya Allmond [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kenya.allmond.us http://kenya.allmond.us/vlog VM/F 202-478-0490 To thine own self be true. ----- Original Message ---- From: John Coffey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2007 10:22:56 AM Subject: [videoblogging] bad Western Digital Hardrives? I think I read either here or on Twitter that Bill Streeter had 3 harddrives go bad last week. I'm starting to find that my Western Digital WD HD's don't show up on the desktop. And one of them had smoke coming out like a toaster. Any other thoughts on these "always on sale at Best Buy" clunkers. I'm gonna spend the $ on reliable LaCie. John Jimmy CraicHead TVVideo Podcast about Sailing, Travel, Craic and Cocktails www.jchtv.com ____________________________________________________________________________________ Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs Yahoo! Groups Links ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better pen pal. Text or chat with friends inside Yahoo! Mail. See how. http://overview.mail.yahoo.com/ [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
