2011/8/17 Pete Orrall <ppat...@gmail.com>: >> BTW: >> Didn't Hitachi used to be IBM? > > I believe IBM sold Hitachi their hard drive business. > >> I am just asking because I didn't have >> the best experience with IBM drives, had two of them and they both broke >> within 18 months(lucky for me I had quaranty for them :D ). > > How interesting. I hear many people have had problems with Hitachi > drives, hence the nickname "Hitachi DeathStar" but myself...I've had no > problems using their drives of any capacity from sizes smaller than 80GB > all the way to 1TB.
No, no, those wer the *IBM* Deathstar drives. There was a particular run of IBM Deskstar drives that all failed after a certain amount of usage due to some non-obvious manufacturing flaw: I had several RAID arrays built from those that were ruined by losing drives faster than I could replace them. I was almost immediately fired because *I* had done backups on spare tapes and was able to save them, but my supervisor was really upset that I had ignored his edict that "those drives are scratch space!!!". See, I actually *looked* and checked what people had on them. I probably saved 2 years of work on several projects, because I didn't rely on an unwritten and unannounced edict of "that space is scratch and not backed up". -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAOCN9rzxOshqpAhYTQ5N=ggyqjcbs1_wpqwa_00e+ytdt1o...@mail.gmail.com
