Craig White wrote: > On Fri, 2009-10-30 at 13:45 -0700, Mike Cloaked wrote: > >> This evening I removed the HD and installed the brand new hard drive. >> The >> machine now readily booted to a PartedMagic LiveCD and I was able to >> partition the drive to prepare for an f11 clean install which I have >> now >> just completed. >> >> So in this case it turned out to be a total failure of the hard drive >> - the >> machine is less than 2 years old, so a drive failure at this age is >> surprising, the more so considering it has always been on a UPS to >> protect >> the mains supplying it. The new HD is a different make to the >> original, and >> hopefully will last a little longer than the previous one! Anyway I am >> very >> glad that this turned out to be unrelated to the operating system, >> although >> I am still trying to get to the bottom of what happened to the other >> machine >> - which was clearly a software issue. >> > ---- > hardly surprising at all...consumer grade SATA hard drives have become > unreliable and that is why none of the manufacturer's warranties them > beyond a year now. > > Really? All of my Seagate drives that I purchase here in Taiwan have 3 year warranties. -- Slang is language that takes off its coat, spits on its hands, and goes to work. Guess Who! http://tinyurl.com/mc4xe7
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