Michael Leone on Thu, 12 Sep 2002 16:20:08 +0200


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Re: [PLUG] Dead, unrecoverable Hard drive?


Arthur S. Alexion said:

> fwiw, I have 9 WD drives running that are more than 6 years old and

And how many newer than 6 years old? :-) Perhaps their QA problems are
more recent than that.

> have been more or less constantly running.  I used to have 10, but one
> failed a couple of months ago.  First to go.  No problems whatsoever,
> otherwise.  Satisfies me.

I had a couple bad experiences w/WD, and so avoid them. Had a problem or 2
with some Maxtors, but still felt better about them than WDs.

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