Oh yeah I also forgot to mention.
Go for price/performance as drive manufacturers acroos the board have
essentially the same failure rates (obviously disregarding the individual
model runs that wind up having problems for ANY manufacturer)
You know come to think of it I remeber about 2 years ago WD had a HUGE run of
drives that would die within about a month...there was no class action suit
against them and there were definately more fialing drives than in the IBM
incident. Maxtor had a similar run of drives not too long before the WD
incident...no class action suit for that either....so just because some
oportunistic JA's in this far toooo overly happy to sue society sue a company
becuase of some drive failures (BTW they were offered to have the drives
replaced by IBM with other unaffected models) Doesn't mean that all the
drives they ever made were bad. Hell noone ever sued JTS people just stopped
buying thier drives, but then again 90% of thier drives were junk.
-Joe
On Sunday 25 August 2002 11:56 pm, you wrote:
> This came through from a s*bscr*ber who posted from the wrong address.
> Thus, the message bounced. However, the content was worth forwarding
> anyway.
>
> Paul
>
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>
> From: jeremy bowers <jeremy@jeremybowers.com>
> To: slug@nks.net
> Subject: Re: [SLUG] Hard Drive brand question
>
> IBM should be out of the question. Recently, their hard drives have been
> exposed as having a ridiculous mean time between failure rate. They aren't
> even producing drives anymore -- any drive you buy now was built several
> months ago and has been rotting in a warehouse.
>
> IBM has recommended that no drive be left on more than 333 hours per
> month. That breaks down to like 11 hours per day. I'd think you want more
> than that kind of production out of a drive.
>
> Some of the horror stories? 40 out of 100 IBM 120GXP drives crash within 3
> months of purchase by a small ISP.
>
> Individual users of 40GXP drives getting less than 8 months of production,
> IBM claims the drive isn't under warranty, because the damage was caused
> by "excessive wear and tear" and under "extreme conditions." The user left
> their computer on for six consecutive months with only reboots bringing
> the system down occasionally. Doesn't sound "exessive" or "extreme" to me.
>
> Here's the site where the people with a class-action lawsuit are suing IBM
> now.
>
> http://www.sheller.com/ibmpress.htm
>
> Older IBM drives are still rock solid, but anything in the last year or
> two is suspect.
>
> I've got a Maxtor 40gb 7200 in my main computer, and it's been great. I
> also hear that Western Digital is putting out an acceptable product. A
> good friend had some misgivings about the Caviar series, but
> couldn't/wouldn't elaborate.
>
> --Jeremy
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