> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: [Eug-lug] More Laptop Woes
> From: "Quentin Hartman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Wed, May 23, 2007 6:49 am
> To: "Eugene Unix and Gnu/Linux User Group" <euglug@euglug.org>
>
> On 5/22/07, Mr O <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > 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.
>
>
> And to counter-point that, of the many hard drives in my house, 8 of them
> are WD, either Raptors or RE2s. One of the Raptors has been going
> strong for
> over 3 years, and the others are over a year old and have been running
> basically 24x7 in that time.
>
> But yeah, WD are generally dodgy in my experience. For example, while
> I was
> at South Lane, we had a batch of 15 computers that were purchased
> sometime
> in 2003, all had consumer grade WD drives in them. 10 of them failed
> within
> 6 months of each other during the 2005-2006 school year.
>
And on the other side of the spectrum, the reason I asked in the first
place is that in all
the years I've worked with computers, until now I've never had a hard
drive fail on me without
extenuating circumstances, like the whole machine getting fried. Even
back in the MFM and ESDI days, all of them have been solid. So when my
friends would talk about drives and drive manufacturers as if they were
sampling wine, I figured they were making it up as they went along. You
know, like those guys that complain about losing pixels on their
monitors. ;-)
J. Toman
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