Nope everything sounds ok. I have a maxtor 240mb disk here that's about 11 years old. and that doesnt seem like it's the odd one that lasted long bc there are a few more where that came from and they still work fine. one of the disks in this box is a 1005mb maxtor and it's also seeming like a good drive. On Fri, Dec 26, 2003 at 11:22:40PM -0500, Jude DaShiell wrote: > Your disk could be failing. The mtbf for most hard disks is 5 years but > I.B.M. hard disks have an mtbf of 15 years. Try buying an IBM hard disk > and you'll notice that fact reflected in the price tag if purchased new. > If your computer has been sounding like a loud ticking clock lately that's > a sign of hard disk failure. I've had this Dell long enough to have to > replace the hard disk and that's what happened over here before the drive > died. Fortunately, much more capacity is available for about the same > amount of money than was the case a few years ago. The 20GB disk in the > Dell installed in 1999 died earlier in 2003 just after the warranty ran > out on the machine. So now for a few extra dollars I have a drive with 6 > tunes the capacity of the original purchased from a local vendor. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Always borrow money from a pessimist; he doesn't expect to be paid back.
