On Sunday 15 April 2018 18:38:44 songbird wrote: > Gene Heskett wrote: > ... > > > The long test was good fwtw. The only notable odd reading was head > > flying hours, which should be close to spinning hours, but in both > > instances must have been a 512 bit value pulled out of thin air. > > Buggy firmware? I don't recall ever taking that model to seagates > > site to see if there was an updated version. > > > > If I buy a drive from staples/newegg etc, thats the first thing I > > do, they buy theirs so early in a production run that they are > > buggier than 10 day old roadkill in late August. > > > > The rest of you may want to keep that little tidbit in mind. > > ... > > i doubt i'll ever be buying a spinning hard drive > ever again. the one i have is for backups and used > once in a while but mostly is turned off. when the > SSD gets close to being full i'll likely be able to > get one with 8x the capacity for about the same > price. we'll see... > > compared to the good old days of spinning drums, > punch cards, paper tapes, 9 track tapes and disk > drives the size of commercial washing machines you > can say that technology has certainly marched on...
I can recall the weekly re-calibration those drives needed too. About an 8 hour procedure, and its disk pack, carried a 14 incher that held 10 megabytes. An old TI-9900 machine, about the size of a refrigerator, had 2 of them. One worked nonstop for the 2 years I was at that tv station as the A.C.E. The other would fail at least weekly, and a restart was useless until this re-calibration had been done. The maker, Dynex IIRC, was helpless at helping me do it. Typical of a California outfit, designed it, made it, sold a few to TI, and then fired everyone smarter than the janitor. > songbird That it most certainly has. I'd likely be following along but this now ancient quad core, slow, phenom I built over a decade back just keeps toddling along, without giving me a good reason to retire it. Asus's top of the line boards just keep going. -- Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
