"Edward Dekkers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Your point is very valid Harry, it is POSSIBLE the drives haven't reached > their 3 year warranty period yet, BUT, believe me, with the amount of drives > that rip through here, I certainly would have expected at least one back by > now. We used to use Quantums, but the failure rate was too high. We tried > IBMs, and, would you believe it? Right smack in the middle of the period > where the IBMs had a high failure rate as well.
I only wanted to establish a time line. Since my own experience is pretty limited. sounds like your experience is one of the more rounded ones mentioned in this thread. I felt wd were decent quality too. But good to hear a good report that spans a number of users. > Basically what I'm trying to say that I've returned at least one drive of > nearly all brands we've tried (we even tried seagate for a short period), > and I've haven't had to return a WD yet. Yeah, that alone has to be a good testimony. I suspected the wd doom sayers were more repeating what they heard, as against real experience. I have had two out of 5-6 fail. So couldn't really get a handle on it from that. One was nearly past the warranty. But also 35 years in heavy constsruction hasn't left me very gentle with tools and equipment, so I may have abused things more than most. _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
