[ale] OT: HW failure

[Bob Toxen]

I've had very different experience.  I use WD almost exclusively.  In
8 years, I've had only a single WD disk fail.  It failed after 2.5 years
but failed slowly so that I was able to copy my data.  (I wasn't doing
regular backups back then.)  WD then exchanged it for free, including
postage both ways!  I'll stick with WD.

IBM 60 GB disks had (may still have) severe reliability problems and
IBM refused to "do the right thing".  Instead they told people to turn
off their systems at night and on weekends.  Sheesh.  My oldest WD disk
still happily turns after 6.5 years of 24x7!

Bob

On Tue, Dec 23, 2003 at 09:02:26PM -0500, Calvin Harrigan wrote:
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> Funny you should mention that, I've had similar experiences with WD.  Returned
> a 1.6 Gig 6 times!  Sold it the last time.  This was all within 1 year.  I 
> have sworn off WD's.  I'm sure someone can bring a similar argument for just 
> about any other brand.  In drives that I have used I would rate them in the 
> following order from most reliable to least.

> Quantum (Conner?)
> Seagate
> IBM
> Samsung
> Maxtor
> Fujitsu
> Western Digital


> One last note, heat seems to kill a lot of drives.  Make sure that your drives 
> are properly ventilated, you know, not stacked one top of each other in a 
> regular Mid-Tower case.  I've measure 130 degrees in that space between the 
> drives.

> Calvin...