>>>>> "ah" == Al Hopper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
ah> I've had bad experiences with the Seagate products.
I've had bad experiences with all of them.
(maxtor, hgst, seagate, wd)
ah> My guess is that it's related to duty cycle -
Recently I've been getting a lot of drives from companies like newegg
and zipzoomfly that fail within the first month. The rate is high
enough that I would not trust a two-way mirror with <1mo old drives.
Then I have drives with a few undreadable sectors 2 - 5 years into
their life, from all manufacturers. I test them with 'smartctl -t
long', and either send them for warranty repair or abandon them. I
suspect usually 'dd if=/dev/zero of=<drive>' would fix such a disk
unless the ``reallocated sector count'' is too high, but I just
pretend every drive is on lease for its warranty period. The
PATA/SATA/SATA2NCQ interfaces and capacity-per-watt changes about that
often anyway.
I send so many drives back for repair that it only makes financial
sense to buy 5-year-warranty drives. I don't think they can make any
money on me with the rate I send them, but if more people did this
maybe they would learn to make disks that don't suck. Maybe they are
giving me all their marginal ones or something, by using ``sales
channels''---we pour our shit down THIS channel. In that case they
could still make money.
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