The first Raptor I bought lasted almost 5 minutes! My current one has been going for a few months. I only bought it to move my games mount point to. I don't trust my day to day data to any WD no matter what the warranty.
The BIGGEST thing you can do to prevent drive failure is BACKUP. Seriously, this guy Murphy usually only comes around when you have something critical on the drive and no current backups. --- Quentin Hartman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > FWIW, I've had a lot of failures with the consumer grade WD > drives in recent > years. It's gotten to the point that I won't buy them anymore. > Their > high-end SCSI and Raptors have been solid though. Not sure > where the scorpio > would fit on that spectrum... > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Never miss an email again! Yahoo! Toolbar alerts you the instant new Mail arrives. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/toolbar/features/mail/ _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list euglug@euglug.org http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
