hard drive woes

Thu Nov 21 04:30:15 CST 2002

Kinda related to my previous thread about drives crapping out. My 
firewall is an ancient 486 with a 500Mb or so drive and its been 
churning for over 2 years now, no problems. Who knows what punishment it 
took before I got a hold of it. Yet, three modern Quantum/Maxtor drives 
have failed in the same period of time :(

Kurt Kessler wrote:

>Thanks everyone for all the good info.
>
>I really wonder if the quality HAS gone downhill. I
>Still have several drives that are WAAAAYYY beyond
>their usable lifetime. These are smaller drives
>540mb-3.5gb, Fujitsu, Samsung, Western Digital,
>Seagate, Maxtor. All are running just fine. The only
>horror stories I seem to hear about are newer (less
>than 2 year old) drives that just went belly up. What
>gives??? Its just crazy if you ask me.
>
>Kurt
>
>--- admin at kclinux.net wrote:
>
>>>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.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>majordomo at kclug.org
>>Enter without the quotes in body of message
>>
>
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