On Fri, 5 Nov 2010, Rolf-Werner Eilert wrote: > I have been experiencing sudden fails of WD drives since the 1980s or > 1990s, we used to have them in student workplace PCs together with other > brands during the 1990s (until I switched to thin clients without HDDs).
Rolf-Werner, Over the past 25+ years I've had good experiences with WD drives. The company does seem to do some capacities better than others, and vendors have warned me away from the ones that tend to die early. The WD 80G drive I took out of service a week or so ago has been running for about 6 years; the 160G drive that will be replaced this weekend has been running faithfully for about 4 years. I believe that all drive manufacturers have some capacities or technologies that do not hold up well. And because I no longer pay attention to general hardware issues I no longer know how many actual manufacturers remain despite the variety of brands available. Rich _______________________________________________ Dirvish mailing list Dirvish@dirvish.org http://www.dirvish.org/mailman/listinfo/dirvish
