On Wednesday 19 May 2004 23:28, Sevatio wrote: > Måns Rullgård wrote: > > John Lange <john.lange@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > I'd agree that drives are not as good as they used to be. I recently > > had a one year old Western Digital disk suddenly drop dead while > > running. Nothing could be recovered from it. Shortly after that I > > bought four Seagate Barracuda ATA disks, one of which was defective. > > It would work flawlessly for an hour to a month, then shut itself > > down. Rebooting made it run for a while before it repeated. > > > > Compare this to the 1GB Quantum Fireball SCSI disk sitting in my > > firewall. It's been running 24/7 since some time around 1996. > > > >>Does anyone know of any web sites with statistics or test data? > > > > That would be interesting. > > I would also concur. I had a Western Digital that failed after 10 > months. Western Digital sent me another one that failed in exactly 10 > months again. I didn't want to send it in to get yet another piece of > WD junk. So, lesson learned to stay away form WD drives; correct or not. <aol mode> Me too ! </aol mode> My current vendor gives me a hard time everytime I order a new drive since they sell WD predominantly. I still do not give in, no WD for me anymore. Maarten -- Yes of course I'm sure it's the red cable. I guarante[^%!/+)F#0c|'NO CARRIER - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
