On Mon, 23 Nov 2009 08:06:18 +0000, you wrote: >You must be very lucky. I have a whole stack of dead drives. When a hard >drive fails it is very often catastrophic failure and you lose >everything. One day it's working fine, the next day it won't boot.
You must have had the same batch of Craptor IDE drives (Maxtor's) I had. All failed at 3 years plus a month or two (70 odd in total) a year since. Another thirty PC's fitted with Seagate drives and installed at the same time are still going strong, as are a handful with Western Digital Drives. I've got a couple of servers with Seagate Ultra SCSI's in that are now 8 years old and are still working fine. They've been relegated to non critical tasks and they will get trashed when they eventually fail. Steve Blackmore -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
