On Wed, Jul 10, 2002 at 11:14:40PM -0500, Julian Opificius wrote:
> I've been following a thread on the Mandrake newbie list about hard drives,
> and "learned" that my Western Digital HDs are about as welcome in the Linux
> world as a hole in the head.
>
> I haven't had any problems with my RH7.2 installations to date, even after
> I added a WD 80Gig drive on one of them. Am I living on borrowed time?
> Can anyone speak from experience on the issue?
I have a 1Gb that I got in '94 that was still running in March '01 when I
retired it. I heard from a friend, though, that shortly after that they had
some problems with their quality, like in the 1.5, 2, 3, etc. Gb drives. I
had a 1.5Gb and a 2Gb given to me by someone who outgrew them. I installed
them and one failed (got so many errors that I took it out of the system) and
the other ran fine for about a year (then I retired the machine)...
So, overall I've had good luck with them. Now, though, I have a Seagate 30Gb
and IBM 9Gb SCSI (I think). But I don't go through enough to be considered
any evidence, only anectode. But it's obvious that anyone who used a machine
as their main home system from '94 to '01 stays far from the cutting edge (but
at least linux allows using a machine like that!)... :)
-Michael
--
In light of the terrorist attack on the U.S.:
They that give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
-- Benjamin Franklin, 1759
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