hard drive woes
admin at kclinux.net
admin at kclinux.net
Wed Nov 20 19:15:56 CST 2002
> When I worked in a hardware shop, it seems like drives became
> more and more unrecoverable as technology advanced. I took that to
> mean that they were reliable enough that they only failed if they were
> really, really dead.
I couldnt agree with this any more. I no longer "depend" on IDE drives for
important data any more. Seems when drives got larger than 10 gig, they
seem to fail alot more often. I have four Maxtor 6 gig IDE drives in one
system, and I've never had a problem with them. But for at least the past
2 years, I've had 10 to 80 gig drives go out from Maxtor, Western Digital,
and Seagate. I havent tried IBM's desktop hard drives yet, but if they're
as reliable as their laptop drives in Toshiba Tecras, no thanks.
I have yet to see one of my SCSI drives go out for the last 4 years.
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