On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 1:38 PM, javadayaz <[email protected]> wrote: > the hard drive is only a few months old btw
Please try to put your replies /below/ the text you're quoting. Does your brother tend to treat his disks roughly? That kind of failure rate implies it's the user, not the hardware. Hard disks are ultra-high-precision machines and need to be handled very gently. They should, if possible, never ever be moved when they are running, and if you must move them, do so only slowly and gently, with no sudden jerks or bangs. A drop of only a few inches is enough to kill a hard disk when it is working, as is something falling onto it such as a hardback book. When they're off, they're still very fragile, just a bit less so. They should be carried in a padded container, ideally one with shockproofing, and they don't like vibrations, such as being carried on a bicycle backrack or something like that. They need to be treated with care, always. If he can't adapt to doing that, then maybe he should switch to USB memory sticks, or a cardreader with a whole pile of large-capacity SDHC cards or something like that. These have no moving parts so they're very robust. If he's had multiple failures in a few months, then why isn't he backing up, though?! -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/liamproven Email: [email protected] • GMail/GoogleTalk/Orkut: [email protected] Tel: +44 20-8685-0498 • Cell: +44 7939-087884 • Fax: + 44 870-9151419 AOL/AIM/iChat/Yahoo/Skype: liamproven • LiveJournal/Twitter: lproven MSN: [email protected] • ICQ: 73187508 -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
