hard drive woes

[Dale]

Yea... I've seen serveral fujitsu drives fail. Seems
like they go in spurts. I've had half a dozen
customers bring in systems over the last couple of
weeks. Dead drives.. all Fujitsu's.. of the 10 gig
flavor.
 
> Well, if you don't count the DeathStar line.  :-) 
> Both of mine died on me, 
> and a friend of mine lost his too.  (At least IBM's
> great about their 
> warranty.)  And now recently there's the whole
> Fujitsu IDE failing story 
> that's been going around.  I've given up on finding
> one manufacturer that 
> doesn't have more problems than others...you'll find
> every manufacturer has 
> people that would never use their drives and other
> people that will only use 
> them.
> 
> It does seem like most current IDE drives tend to be
> more fragile than in the 
> past...guess it's just more incentive to make sure
> you've got all of your 
> important data backed up somewhere.  Hmmm...maybe
> this will be the final 
> straw to get me to use SCSI in my next computer.
> 
> -- 
> Crazy?  I'll tell you what crazy is.  Crazy is
> running around with half
> a melon on my head screaming "I'M A HAMSTER, I'M A
> HAMSTER,
> I'M A HAMSTER!!"  Now that's crazy.
> 
> 
> 
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