On Tue, 21 Apr 1998, Dave Ihnat wrote:
> Joe Cooper wrote:
>
> > And I can remember a time when Seacrate was the drive to avoid...
> > ...
> > I've heard nothing but good things about IBM drives lately.
>
> It changes from year to year and model to model. Not two years ago, a
> friend at IBM warned me away from their then-current batch of drives; really
> bad sticktion problems that they didn't want to own up to.
>
> You've just gotta keep your ear to the ground. Anecdotal information is the
> best we can do to avoid dog runs...
Where were you guys last week? I just bought a 6.4 Gig western digital
on Sunday. :( Oh well that is what warrenties are for I guess. I have never
had a WD drive go bad on me but my 3.2 Gig has been making intermittant noise
for a year. Drives me crazy but I see no errors or perfoemance problems. It
just sounds like it is eating itself up for about 5 min then shuts up,
sometimes for weeks, sometimes for hours. :( Funny thing about it is I almost
bought a Quantium but I just had one go bad last week so I decided to
go with the WD. Maybe leaving it up 24/7 and not having it spin down all
of the time will help. I am still not convinced that all of this power saving
stuff is good for the equipment, especially monitors.
......Tom "Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards,
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Unix IS user friendly. It's just selective about who its friends are.
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