Re: [PLUG] Dead, unrecoverable Hard drive?

[JP Toto <viceclown@yahoo.com>]

I've been sticking with IBM drives lately with great success. I do, 
however, only buy retail so that the warranty is good.

I had a Maxtor 3 gig drive that was replaced by the manufacturer 3 TIMES 
before I got a stable one. Incredible.

gabriel rosenkoetter wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 11, 2002 at 10:55:57PM -0400, Time wrote:
>
> > 1) Western Digital
> > 2) Seagate
> > 3) Maxtor
> > 9000) Quantuum
>
>
> That's funny. My experience is diametrically opposite (never met a
> Western Digital I didn't end up throwing through a window, and this
> email was queued on and sent from an 8-year-old Quantum drive that
> has never, in its lifetime, shown any sign of trouble). But I only[1]
> buy SCSI.
>
> Drive quality varies *widely*, even within a "trusted" vendor name.
> Get a good warranty, at least six identically-sized, SCSI drives,
> and do RAID 5 with five of them and keep one as a cold spare. Or
> be aware that you *will* have loss-of-data failures of disk. (In
> the latter case... you own a tape drive, right?)
>
> [1] Well, except for /music. But that doesn't count, since its
> backup is, by definition, just shuffling my CD collection through my
> four SCSI CD-ROMs again, which I can do with concerted effort over a
> weekend.

--
JP Toto
ViceClown@yahoo.com

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